http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,6119,2-11-1447_1475352,00.html Nigeria wants high tech nukes
Lagos - Nigeria is in talks with North Korea's isolated regime about acquiring advanced missile technology for the west African country's armed forces, a senior official said on Wednesday.
Nigeria's Vice President Atiku Abubakar met his North Korean counterpart Yang Hyong Sop on Tuesday in the Nigerian capital Abuja for wide-ranging bilateral talks, Atiku's office announced.
Among items on the agenda was Nigeria's hopes of obtaining missile technology and the know-how to set up a "multi-purpose foundry" for civilian use from North Korea, Atiku's spokesperson Onu Kaba Ojo said.
Following the meeting, Atiku's office released a statement saying: "He assured that government would continue to co-operate with the Korean government in the defence sector, an area in which both Nigeria and North Korea have co-operated over the years."
Ojo said that the defence talks went on behind closed doors, but that according to a note prepared for the Nigerian leader, "The area they discussed was missile technology and a multi-purpose foundry."
News that Nigeria is seeking military ties with Pyongyang may anger North Korea's arch-foe Washington, which sees President Olusegun Obasanjo's administration as a friend in Africa.
The White House is locked in a diplomatic stand-off with Kim Jong-Il's totalitarian regime over its bid to build a nuclear arsenal and its export of missile technology to regimes considered unfriendly by Washington.
After the election these PRK fools will be in a world of hurt.
Please, when Kim Ill Jerk goes into Nigeria, please ask him to find the 1.4 million dollars that the Finance Minister owes me! I have been waiting and waiting for it to be wired into my checking account, and he hasn't called me all week!