Here is the link I found the other day. This media attention puts Calgary on the radar in a very questionable position.
While not necessarily a negative article about Calgary or a Calgary company as I was over exaggerating but it certainly puts questions and suspicions into play of just what kind of shady business some of us are doing. I personally felt outraged and concerned when I discovered that a big company based in our city is helping North Korea advance in both economically and quite possibly militarily as well using Calgary made products which unfortunately has a wide variety of uses. Is this something we should be concerned about or should we just accept that it is all part of doing business, even if it is NK as before reading this article I didn't even know we had any kind of trade business with the hermit kingdom.
As a South Korean, this is really not good since the regime in DPRK is pure evil and their zealous strive to be a nuclear force under stiffening sanctions will enable them to make ingenious uses for whatever products they currently have in possession. In reality they may of unknowingly been doing biz with NK since that regime has a tendency to set up shadow companies in China/Malay etc where many seem to fall for it as nobody does background checks or not deep enough due dilligence.
This may open up a can of worms for discussion that can take away from this threads purpose, but I thought it needed to be shared so you guys can read it and see what your take is. For me personally, I don't like this one bit and nobody should ever be doing business with the North Korean Regime PERIOD!
Lastly, The article is just over a year old btw.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.668cab8474e2
The quote
"Inside the factory there sat dozens of huge boxes labeled Axeleron, a compound used for insulating cables that is made by Dow Chemical in Calgary, Canada. The boxes bore a production date of August 2014, before the current rounds of sanctions went into effect, although earlier measures banned the trade of “dual-use goods,” or products that have both civilian and military uses."