The South Korean report is incorrect. The agreement to buy the Scud-C’s was inked in Damascus in January of 1991. The coalition had no prior knowledge of the shipment and to avoid detection the al-Yarmouk sailed around the horn of Africa. Casablanca was its last port to bunker (refuel). The cargo manifest stated that the final port was Cyprus (a short sail from the real destination, Lattakia). Interestingly, Sec of Sate James Baker arrived in Damascus for talks the same day the shipment arrived. He knew nothing about it.
Also in January 1991 was the event in the Philippines:
....1,400 terrorists made their way to Baghdad in the final months of 1990 as he prepared to face the coalition assembled by the United States to oust him from Kuwait. He dispatched others to attack U.S. interests around the world. On January 18, 1991, one day after the Gulf war began, an Iraqi terrorist posing as a day laborer managed to plant 26 sticks of TNT in a flower box below a window of the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Jakarta, Indonesia. The dynamite wasn’t completely buried, and a gardener found it before the bomb exploded. The following day in the Philippines, two Iraqis blew themselves up in a plot known to CIA veterans as Operation Dogmeat, a botched attempt to bomb the U.S. Information Service headquarters at the Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center in Manila. The failed attack on the U.S. government-run center received the active support of the Iraqi ambassador to the Philippines....—— American Spectator