[John H K]

What on earth are you talking about?

You've got it totally bass-ackwards. Egypt, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, etc. get items from NORTH KOREA, not the other way around.

North Korea got it's stuff from the Soviets, or the Chinese DIRECTLY. And the rest are indigenously made knockoffs of Soviet or Chinese gear.

The North Koreans have two types of land-based anti-ship cruise missles; the Soviet "Samlet" (which is basically a land-launched version of the Russian "Styx") and a few imported combined with some homemade Chinese HY-1s which are themselves Chinese knockoffs of the Styx.

What few articles give details about the missles indicate they were likely Samlets...basically, a Styx.

These missles are so amazingly old that CUBA had batteries of these DURING THE CUBAN MISSLE crisis.

[bmwcyle]

The shipments have been going both direction. China has been shipping to them all.

[bmwcyle]

North Korea tested a cruise missile By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES

North Korea flight-tested a new long-range cruise missile Monday, not a short-range, 1950s-era weapon as first reported, U.S. intelligence officials said yesterday. Top Stories • Free Iraq is Mideast model • High court rules pro-life protests a lawful right • Children of Maine Guard unit taunted by teachers • Engineers feared shuttle disaster • Translating for Yao a big-time assignment • It keeps snowing, and snowing ... • Old Man Winter wears out his welcome • Suspicious minds

Intelligence data from the test contradicted statements by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who told reporters Tuesday that the test was a "fairly innocuous" firing of an old missile. "It appears to be a Silkworm variant that they [North Koreans] modified to get a longer range," said one U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Initial reports said the missile test, which occurred hours before South Korea's new president, Roh Moo-hyun, was inaugurated in Seoul, involved a short-range Russian Styx anti-ship missile with a range of about 50 miles. Further analysis of intelligence data collected on the flight test sharply changed the estimate of the missile's capability, and thus its importance in the international community's current standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program. The Washington Times first disclosed the existence of the new North Korean cruise missile in 1997, when it was test fired for the first time. The missile was identified as a long-range variant of China's HY-2 Silkworm missile and dubbed the AG-1 by the Pentagon. The first test launch was May 23, 1997, from a military base at the Angol army barracks in northeastern North Korea.

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It looks like China to me.