China and Russia continue not giving a damn of US sanctions on North Korea

Not only China is accused by the United States and its Asian allies for oil traffic to North Korea, in violation of the provisions by US unilateral sanctions for their missile and nuclear programs.

After the photos captured by the American satellite that immortalized Chinese cargo ships in the Yellow Sea carry out transhipments of crude oil to transfer them to North Korean vessels, this time the Western intelligence sources – quoted by the Reuters agency – have also turned the accusation towards the Russians.

According to reports of the British news agency, on at least three occasions some Russian oil tankers have carried out operations similar to those carried out regularly by Chinese ships, transhiping oil to merchant ships of Pyongyang.

The British agency reports the case of the Russian oil tanker “Vityaz” which left the port of Slavyanka, near Vladivostok, on October 15, with a cargo of 1,600 tons of crude oil. According to the official documents presented by the agent in charge of the ship to the Russian port authorities, barrels belonging to the “Vityaz” had to be transferred to a fleet of Japanese deep-sea vessels operating in the Sea of Japan. However, according to intelligence sources heard by Reuters, the “Vityaz” at one point of its journey has turned off the transponder, has moved away from the route and has become untraceable for a few days. The accusation against the Russian owner of the oil tanker is that, at a certain point, the “Vityaz” was reached by the North Korean oil tanker “Sam Ma 2” and, in the middle of the Pacific, the transfer of oil would have taken place.

It seems obvious that American spy satellites have nothing better to do than to spy on what Russian oil tankers do. After all, Putin and the Kurds are already caring all of the Islamic terrorists of ISIS. Therefore also the American secret services must justify their budget to their government.

The Russian government immediately denied any accusation against it by generally denying any involvement of the Kremlin and any state officials in the eventual oil trafficking between Russia and North Korea to evade the embargo on fuel and petrochemical products to the North Korean territory (ah ah ah).

Trump has already accused China of violating sanctions before the UN and it’s not said he can do the same with Russia. In face of the international community, discredit the work of two powers that are competing with the US on the Asian politics, and which act as key players in the management of the Korean crisis, is needed to hit important wounds, also to undermine their rapprochement towards the Asian states linked to the United States and to prove their unreliability in the great Korean game.

 

Source: Gli occhi della guerra