Posted on 12/12/2004 7:52:26 PM PST by canadianally
It was confirmed that North Korea promised Iraq missile technology worth $10 million (approximately 10.5 billion won) when Saddam Hussein was in power.
An additional part of the Duelfer Report (CIA) was made available to the public on December 11 and says that the Hussein regime raised money through oil-for-food programs under the supervision of the U.N. to finance the 10 million dollar arms contract with North Korea.
According to sources at western intelligence agencies, North Korea is estimated to have sold about 540 missiles so far. The number includes 250 SCUD missiles worth $580 million, to Iran, Syria, Pakistan, and other countries between 1987 and 1992.
The latest one I see here online is Sept 2004
http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/
Interesting. A violation of ceasefire it seems.
A very similar report came out last year about this. It is obvious Saddam was planning to have illegal weapons for this and many other reasons.
Why aren't Dan Rather and the NYT tripping over each other to see who can exploit this story first? /sarcasm
(I know NK has delt more SCUD at a higher cost than this. Here is just one $500M deal for SYRIA)
The initial Syrian-North Korean agreement was for the purchase of 150 Scud-Cs at a price of approximately $500 million, with long-term deliveries set to continue through at least 1995.[1]
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Syria/Missile/4126_4337.html#fn1
[1] Center for Nonproliferation Studies, "Eye on Proliferation: WMD Country Profiles: North Korea: Missile: Import/Export," ; Kenneth Timmerman, Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Cases of Iran, Syria, and Libya (Los Angeles: Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1992), p. 72; Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr., "A History of Ballistic Missile Development in the DPRK," Occasional Paper No. 2, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, November 1999, p. 18; Chang Chun Ik, Pukhan Haek-Missile Chžnjaeng (Seoul: Sžmundang, May 1999), p. 277; "Ballistic Missile Threat Evolves," International Defense Review, vol. 33, no. 10, 1 October 2000; Adel Darwish, "N. Korea 'Selling Scuds'," Independent, 6 April 1991.
February 1991
Iraqi deputy foreign minister Saadoun Hamadi flies to Pyongyang in an attempt to speed the delivery of Scud-B and Scud-C missiles. North Korea reneges on the December 1990 deal because Iraq is unable to pay in hard currency or oil.
—Steven Emerson, "The Postwar Scud Boom," Wall Street Journal, 10 July 1991, p. A12.
Unconfirmed; in 1991 North Korea reportedly agrees to provide Iraq with Scud-B and Scud-C missiles in exchange for crude oil
http://www.nti.org/
I first read about this in David Kaye's (sp?) First Interim Report to Congress regarding WMD.
I'm surprised this subject did not surface during the campaign.
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