[binreadin]

I was listening to John Bachelor's show the other night, and he had a guest on who claimed that the North Koreans managed managed the chemical weapons stocks for Syria, AND flew Syrian military jets, as Assad didn't have enough pilots. If true, and I have no reason to think it isn't as true as anything presented here, knowing what we know about N Korean dissemination of weapons technology, that adds a whole new wrinkle. The interview is available on a podcast.

[Magnum44]

I have never heard or seen anything that would support that NK is managing or flying anything in Syria.

Now, from completely different sources outside of my work world, I have a friend in the oil business with whom we have a mutual American citizen pilot acquaintance. This pilot, experienced but not with prior military service, took a contract “job” flying mirages for the Libyan air force. So I suppose its not unreasonable to believe that many of the ME countries have to hire out to pilot “mercs” to keep their planes flying. I have no idea if this is the case in Syria.