California man who admitted shipping weapons to North Korea is sentenced to 8 years in prison
LOS ANGELES – Authorities said on Tuesday that California had been sentenced to eight years in prison after agreed to send weapons and ammunition to North Korea, which would be used for a surprise attack on South Korea.
42 -year -old Shenghua Wen came to the USA from China in 2012 with a student visa and according to a statement from the US lawyer’s office in Los Angeles, it remained illegal in the country after its expired time.
In June, Wen was found guilty of acting as a conspiracy and an illegal representative of a foreign government to violate the International Emergency Economic Authorities Law. He was sentenced to Monday.
Wen said that before entering the United States, North Korean came together at an embassy in China, and that they told them to supply goods for the North Korean government. In a federal complaint, North Korean admitted that he was trying to get a uniform to hide for a surprise attack.
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, recently delivered nuclear missile launchers to the front of the façade South Korea and the North’s border in the North has shown the intention to place nuclear weapons.
United Nations decisions forbade North Korea from importing or exporting weapons.
Prosecutors, in 2022 North Korean officials in contact with him through an online messaging application, and gave the instruction to buy firearms, he said. According to the complaint, Long Beach in 2023 sent two weapons and other items from California to North Kong via Hong Kong via Hong Kong.
The authorities did not specify the types of weapons exported in the complaint.
To perform his operation, Wen acquired a business called Super Armory, a federal firearm license in 2023 and recorded for $ 150,000 under the name of his business partner in Texas. Other people bought firearms and then represented the shipments to California, represented as refrigerators and camera pieces. The inspectors did not say whether Wen had issued any shipments during the first 10 years in the United States.
The complaint seized 50,000 rounds of ammunition in Wen’s suburb, stored in a van parked on the car road in Wen’s Ontario suburb in September. The complaint seized a chemical threat identification device and a transmission detective that Wen said it plans to send to the North Korean government for military use.
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