A Chinese national living in Ontario was arrested on federal charges alleging he schemed to illegally ship weapons to North Korea for use by the secretive communist country’s military in a “surprise attack on South Korea,

Through his business and others he paid, the suspect obtained firearms, often from Texas, and brought them into California to be shipped through the port of Long Beach, officials said.

A Chinese man living illegally in Ontario was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly sent guns, ammunition and military equipment to North Korea by disguising it in shipping containers headed out from Long Beach.