Posted on 11/26/2005 5:57:37 AM PST by Alex Marko
BERLIN - Iran has offered North Korea oil and natural gas as payment for help in developing nuclear missiles, German weekly magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday, citing unidentified Western intelligence sources.
A senior Iranian official traveled to the North Korean capital Pyongyang during the second week of October to make the offer, the magazine quoted the sources as saying. It was unclear what North Korea's response was, it added.
Diplomats and intelligence sources say Iran is pushing ahead with plans to enrich uranium in defiance of international pressure to stop developing sensitive nuclear technology to calm fears it is seeking nuclear weapons.
Iran insists its nuclear ambitions are entirely peaceful.
Iran's Shahab-3 missiles are based on North Korea's Nodong rockets and Pyongyang is Tehran's most important partner in developing missile technology, Der Spiegel said.
North Korea and Iran have been collaborating for quite a while.
So when do we put a stop to this nonsense, and in such a way as to prevent others like Chavez or Castro from like behavior.
time for invasion or has Iraq sapped the will out of the world to do what's right.
Just let Hitler build his battleships and occupy the Sudetenland. The important thing is that we maintain the peace. War, after all, is unthinkable...Uh Oh, we have been here before haven't we.
"We will have peace in our time". Wasn't that the quote?
In late July 2005 Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani said the Shihab-3 contained a range of 1,930 kilometers, a major increase from the previous version of the missile, which had a range of 1,300 kilometers. He said the Shihab-3 developed and tested in 2004 significantly increased the range of the missile. Shamkhani was quoted by Radio Farda as saying that the liquid-fuel Shihab could also be fitted with a nuclear warhead.
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