"Do you have any idea how $!@#*&@ busy I am?"
Posted on 12/14/2009 8:17:43 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
/begin my translation
Friction Developing between N. Korea and Iran over Delivery of Missile Components
(Seoul Kyodo = Yonhap) Iran and N. Korea are bickering over the troubled assembly phase of Iran's new intermediate range ballistic missile(IRBM) whose parts are imported from N. Korea and put together locally.
According to diplomatic source(s) in Seoul, Iran recently postponed its test launch of IRBM because electronic components to ensure its accuracy had not arrived from N. Korea in time.
Analysts are trying to figure out why N. Korea is having trouble delivering missile parts on schedule.
N. Korea explained Iran that the electronic components were in the containers aboard the Iran-bound Australian freighter intercepted by UAE.
However, Iran suspects that the components were not aboard the said containers.
According to intelligence sources in E. Asia, there were only ordinary weapons not missile components in the ten containers which were confiscated
Some experts suspect that N. Korea is having trouble producing missile parts due to UN sanction.
They also say another possibility is that N. Korea wants to keep its edge in missile technology over Iran by this delaying tactics.
N. Korea has been developing IRBM based on Soviet's SSN6 SLBM, which Western military experts dubbed as BM-25 or 'Munsudan.'
Iran also protested that N. Korean technicians working in Iran are not cooperative.
As a result, some claim that N. Korea wants to do its missile test first, while others saying that there could be technical problems with the news IRBM.
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Ping!
“aboard the Iran-bound Australian freighter intercepted by UAE”
Eh? Renagade arms traders?
"Do you have any idea how $!@#*&@ busy I am?"
BOY Freepers you scare me it took 5 post before somebody slip in that caption from Team America
Actually, there are certain forces that have been messing things up to frustrate this relationship. Yeah....yeah... and pretty soon, Iran is going to get so frustrated that they will attack N.K....yeah.. and then N.K. will bomb Iran...and ah... yeah...
But I don’t know who would do that. Iran and N.K. make such a lovely couple.
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