That it is not an independent N. Korean action or test or sabre rattling but linked to Iranian plans for missiles and nuclear capability?
N. Korea has been the provider of nose cones to Iran and now a longer range missile than Iran's Shahab 3.
Which has to be first tested and proved before Iran hands over the money?
What proof is there for these assertions?
it is a proving test for equipment already sold to Iran?
I think that this is just an informed speculation.
N. Korea has been the provider of nose cones to Iran and now a longer range missile than Iran's Shahab 3.
This could be true. N. Korea has been selling its missile technology for a long time, sometimes in exchange for oil.
The previous supply of four nuclear nose cones for the Shahab3 missile is old news and common knowledge in intel circles. Nothing new here.
The possibility of the new N. Korean missile test being done for Iranians is the kind of analysis done by intel people on the basis of "if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck etc., then it is most likely to be a duck".
The timing, the fit into the waft and weave of the symbiotic relationship of Iran and N. Korea and the need Iran has to expand its range, all fit too comfortably and conveniently to be off the mark. Like fitting pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, IF and as the pieces fit they create a picture.
The sudden sabre rattling move by N. Korea does not fit the current picture well and would be weird timing even if they do have a tendency to act in strange ways. Given a choice the "duck" factor fits better.
Most intel is based on extrapolating givens or close to givens to try to see beyond the obvious, then assessing the likelihood of this being reality more than sheer conjecture. Interlocking cogs of information then adjust the focus till we hopefully get a true view of what would otherwise remain hidden.
Much is often not available as "proof" or as posted articles with MSM, so you either ride with the logical analysis or you reject it. That is your option and mine, which does not matter since we are not decision makers.
Rather like the disinformation being put out by the Guardian and Juan Cole that 70% of Iranians suport Ahmadi-Nejad and that there is no idiom in Farsi (Persian) that can say "wipe Isreael off the face of the world map", so it was never said!
First, Ahmadi-Nejad would love to have that kind of support. Pure BS by the Guardian that has always led the pack with pro-Mullah disinformation.
As for Cole's statement about Ahmadi-Nejad never saying he wanted Israel removed from the face of the earth, the Persian phrase (transliteration) is: "Israel bayad az nakhsh-e jahan hazv shavad" - that simple. Word for word this is "Israel - must - from - world map - be - deleted". No such idiom? Plain simple grammatical sentence.
There is a sudden surge in Europe to rehabilitate neo-Iran and Ahmadi-Nejad. Sadly encouraged by the USA at this point in our effort to bring them to the table.