No they didn’t and the pentagon knows that for sure. Jack Wheeler has an article from 10/06...and he says the scientist screwed up, and it didn’t happen. So what they’ve sold to the Syrian’s is materials for dirty bombs. That’s what the Israelis’ were after....they were tipping warheads with radioactive materials on their missiles.
No they didn’t and the pentagon knows that for sure.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/nuke.htm
As of February 2005 Defense Intelligence Agency analysts were reported to believe that North Korea may already have produced as many as 12 to 15 nuclear weapons. This would imply that by the end of 2004 North Korea had produced somewhere between four and eight uranium bombs [on top of the seven or eight plutonium bombs already on hand]. The DIA’s estimate was at the high end of an intelligence community-wide assessment of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal completed in early 2005. The CIA lowballed the estimate at two to three bombs, which would suggest an assessment that the DPRK either had not reprocessed a significant amount of plutonium from the 8,000 spent fuel rods removed from storage in early 2003,
http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/North_Korea.pdf (Jan 2006)
... ‘this much material would give NK the ability to produce 6-8 nuclear weapons’....
(it includes a 1990 Soviet KGB report to the Soviet Central Committee on North Korea’s nuclear program...The KGB report asserted that “”According to available date, development of the first nuclear device has been completed at the DPRK nuclear research center in Yongbyon”
“...they were tipping warheads with radioactive materials on their missiles.”
We really can’t conclude on the target unless we get more information. And no one is really talking. There’s lot of inferences but nothing concrete.
What we do know is that the Syrians, North Koreans and Iranians are not happy.
Everyone else seems quietly pleased.
Besides, the people that need to know about the results of the North Korean atomic tests, already know those results in great detail. And Syria would not need to get nuclear items for a dirty bomb via North Korea. There’s other sources that would be easier is my guess.
So let’s put aside the dirty nuclear North Korean material. It’s bigger than that.