from Pyongyang to Tripoli. Like a missile can be sold worldwide
The health of the authoritarian president of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, appears to have worsened recently. Two stroke would hit the "Dear Leader" and, among those stolen, and those denials, the only news is true that the President is locked in the house for too long not to arouse suspicion. Just like him, even his nation seems close to curl in front of the outside world. After tightening its border with South Korea and in the north with China, the country in economic and social crisis, it was given to exorbitant demands. If last October the U.S. was considering removing North Korea from its list of rogue states to promote negotiations on denuclearization, is today more an imposition than a choice. Having decided to reopen the nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, dating from the Soviet era, Pyongyang reiterated America's desire to be removed from the blacklist and has agreed to international inspections on the reactor only after they reached the massive aid promised by the United States, Russia, China, Japan and South Korea. Rather than economic aid seems a ransom. Already in October, in fact, the North Koreans had said more than ten missiles on its west coast to test models KN-01 and Styx (with a range of 110-120 km and the first 46-50 second), just a few days from the nuclear talks with the Americans. Russia, for his part, has always claimed to be excessive Pyongyang's missile tests, but then Moscow is selling him to those missiles and the carrier of the North Korean production Ro-dong, the ancestor of the dreaded Iranian Shahab, was born just a project funded by Tehran and under the supervision of the Russians themselves. In short, North Korea is in a difficult moment in which the credits with Moscow and Tehran, missile threats to Seoul and Tokyo and Washington to nuclear weapons, they can bring a bit 'of money in state coffers and, perhaps, provide better care to the poor president.
Those who still have good health are precisely the markets of tactical weapons. In the Middle East there has been talk of the arrival of Russian S-300 missiles to Iran and Syria, although Moscow has denied the agreement with Iran. The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said that his country will not sell "such weapons to countries that are, mildly speaking, in volatile regions." Even if the "similar Arms do not get to Tehran from Russia, Iran has clearly decided to buy 300 from Belarus and Croatia. Syria, however, has not heard anything. Evidently in Moscow do not believe that the country is in a "volatile region." To lengthen the list of "bad countries" who have written on Medvedev checkbook, Muammar Gaddafi visited the Russian president on October 28 last year. The two colleagues have talked about the cancellation of debt owed by Libya during the Cold War (4.5 billion dollars) of industrial collaboration, of course, gas and energy weapons. Gaddafi would be willing to spend $ 2.5 billion for a contract that guarantees him bombers class Mig and Sukhoi, helicopters and warships and missile systems used for defense S-300. The carriers have been ordered at the same supermarket war for the nations to Moscow from Indonesia and Algeria, while India and Vietnam have already been provided. China is expected to possess about 1600 in 2008 and has a contract for the manufacture of these missiles under the name Hongqi-10. Even the United States have decided to buy a copy to study and improve the model joint American, the Patriot. 
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