Our new nuclear enemy: Myanmar?

So this is a report put out by an opposition group in exile relating to information they got from a defector.
Deja vu?
But didn't Myanmars agreement with Russia and the IAEA on building its own nuclear program already include facilities for enrichment and isotope separation, so why are such things put down in that report as surprising revelations of secrets that can only mean the bomb.

Where to start...
Oh they have been a military dictatorship for 30 years.

Much longer than that.

They have a opium funded army.

As well as being gas and mineral funded, one main trading partner is India who have shifted their support for the people who won the election to support for their own business interests in Burma. What is interesting given the N.korean links in the news report is S.Korean companies being the majority stakeholder in Burmas gas industry.

Only Ethnic Burmese are allowed be citizens.

What is ethnic Burmese?

Oh but that just effects their own citizens what about the rest of the world?

Their internal wars for the past 60 years have had a regular habit of spilling into other countries which happen to be part of the rest of the world.

[Happy Times]

Myanmar is practically tied and allied to China so im waiting for their response.

And about the nuclear weapons, i feel that Finland needs at least to develop the capability to shorten the assembly time from months to weeks.

I dont trust NATO, EU or US nuclear umbrella.

"We know where they are, they are to the east, west, south, north of Rangoon."

[Catfish]

Myanmar,
it was called Burma or Birma not so long ago ?
Well the Burma dictatorship is indeed a very bad one, maybe as bad as North Corea but not quite so badly brainwashing and indoctrinating its inhabitants.

Burma was not paid and equipped weapon-wise by the US before, i wonder if this makes a difference to other states like Afghanistan, Iran/Persia, Iraq. But it would provide some ports vital for China, or the US likewise. If it also has any resources like oil there can be no doubt where the next enemy is ... "to an imperial [nation] nothing is inconsistent which is expedient"

Greetings,
Catfish

[Oberon]

Hmm, could be the beginnings of a domino effect here. If I were the Bangladeshi government I'd be looking for some reassurances from India or Pakistan that they would protect Bangladesh with their nuclear umbrella because tensions between Bangladesh and Burma aren't exactly low.

Dowly raises good points, and being in a western country that has nuclear weapons at the ready, I automatically believe that no other nations can be trusted with them, however the world seems powerless to prevent this, and indeed it is, after all one can dismantle the hardware side of the program but you cannot put the genie back in the bottle now that it is out.

Ironic, perhaps soon we will be at a point where we are more likely to face nuclear attack than at any point during the Cold War (with the possible exception of the Cuban missile crisis).

What can one do? Bombing them would only strengthen their resolve to get on a level playing field, and embargoing them would just make the people suffer and do nothing to prevent the nuclear program.

What a bloody headache.

Oh...and TLAM Strike...MY TRUCK IS LOADED!

"The toughest Burmese bandit, could never understand it..."

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Now why does that not surprise me.

BTW what does NK do for money, apart from consultancy work on missiles etc.

Does NK produce and sell drugs?

Yes they do (apparently) a DPRK freighter was caught with drugs in international waters. The RAAF used it as target practice.

Originally Posted by Tribesman

What is ethnic Burmese?

Not sure what its called but the ethnic group of the goverment leadership. Anyone who is for example Han Chinese or Indian in ethniciy is not allow to be a citizen of Myanmar.

Not sure what its called but the ethnic group of the goverment leadership. Anyone who is for example Han Chinese or Indian in ethniciy is not allow to be a citizen of Myanmar.

Oh dear.
Would you like to check again on all the chinese or all the han that are or are not considered official ethnicities in Burma, then could you do it with all the Indian ethnicities though I don't know if you want the indian and other modern breakdowns or the "indian" pre independance ethnicities.
You do have a point about the dictatorships oppresion of minorities, but you vastly overstate and oversimplify it .....plus of course ignore that these issues existed before the military juntas took power and that the dictatorship does in fact oppress everyone regardless of ethnicity if it fels like doing so.