Anti-proliferation focus to anti-terror exercises 

Singapore
June 5, 2005 - 1:02AM
http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Antiproliferation-focus-to-antiterror-ex
ercises/2005/06/05/1117825111343.html#

Singapore will host maritime exercises this year aimed at stopping shipments
of weapons of mass destruction, the city-state's defence minister said
today.

The announcement by Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean came shortly after US
Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld told an Asia-Pacific security
conference that impoverished North Korea would "sell anything,"' including
its nuclear technology.

"A number of countries will come together to work through some of the
practices needed'' to prevent weapons proliferation, Teo Chee Hean said on
the sidelines of the Singapore conference.

He said Japan would participate in the manoeuvres, to be held in August, but
did not say what other countries would join.

The exercises are part of the US-sponsored Proliferation Security Initiative
to block shipments of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, as well as
the missiles that could be used to carry them and the materials and
equipment needed to make them. Over 60 countries are signatories to the
initiative.

Earlier today, Mr Rumsfeld said communist North Korea poses a worldwide
security threat because of its record of selling missile technology.

"One has to assume that they'll sell anything, and that they would be
willing to sell nuclear technologies,'' Rumsfeld said.

Singapore is one of three countries that straddle the Malacca Strait,
through which ships pass to get to the Middle East and Europe.
Teo also told reporters he ``wouldn't rule out'' joint Malacca Strait
patrols with Malaysia and Indonesia - the other littoral countries along the
piracy-wracked waterway - to prevent a terror strike.

He said detained members of the South-East Asia terror group Jemaah Islamiah
told authorities that the al-Qaeda linked body had ``cased'' ships
transiting north of Singapore several years ago.

Yesterday, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said terrorists had been
scouting maritime targets.

Observers say the 50,000 commercial vessels that ply the waterway yearly are
vulnerable to a seaborne attack from al-Qaeda linked extremists.

- AP

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