Posted on 07/28/2006 3:28:50 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N. Korea-Iran Ties Seem to Be Growing Stronger
Weapons sales and joint observations of missile test launches have been reported. VIPs visiting Pyongyang celebrate 'cooperative relations.'
By Barbara Demick, Times Staff Writer
July 27, 2006
SEOUL — North Korea and Iran, two fiercely anti-American regimes, appear to be bolstering their military and diplomatic cooperation, including the possible sale of missiles to the Tehran government, intelligence sources said.
An Iranian parliamentary delegation visiting Pyongyang was given a VIP welcome with a reception Monday at the North Korean Supreme People's Assembly to celebrate, as the North Korean news service put it, the "friendly and cooperative relations growing strong in various fields" between the two countries.
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Israeli intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said in April that Israel had evidence that the North Koreans had shipped 18 of these missiles — known alternately as the SS-N-6 or the BM-25 — to an Iranian missile base at the port city of Bandar Abbas.
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Ping!
Certainly it benefits N Korea to have close ties with Iran.
His country is starving and he can use the money.
N Korea has no qualms about helping Iran to get missiles and even nuclear secrets. They are both rogue nations led by the insane.
My thought exactly. Pick the deepest water the ship will traverse and put it there. A MK 48 do the trick.
We don't need to say a word.
Perhaps room for a ronery Jihadi?
Usually they airfreight them on planes leased from
former Soviet republics flying over land.
Deliberate shootdown over another country would be
a provocation.
"His country is starving and he can use the money."
Kim prints his own money. He doesn't need Irans.
Well, that is a problem.
The shipment was bound for Yemen and was onboard a freighter. It was allowed to continue on after a few days, but I often wonder where those missiles would have ended up if we hadn't shown our interest in them.
How are these missiles shipped? If by ship or aircraft, couldn't there be an "unfortunate accident" each and every time?
Kim even prints OUR money.
Those 18 missile were apparently transported by ship.
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