In a quick perusal of this and other threads on this incident I’ve been struck by the absence of comment or speculation about what seems to me to be an obvious possibility: North Korea and Iran may be working together as a team, pooling their technical expertise to accelerate Iran’s acquisition of deliverable nuclear warheads.
We already know there is a significant Iranian presence of “observers” in NK, such as in last month’s missile tests. Their mutual interests are complementary. This in no way means that Iran need diminish its domestic development programs, but it also doesn’t preclude Iran pursuing a parallel option through NK. As has been noted, some of the NK technology may offer certain advantages over what they acquired from Pakistani and other sources.
They aren’t stupid, and fully realize that Israel is being backed into a corner, and so may have concluded that time is short and that any and all options which might speed things up are worth it. Expressed more succinctly, the possibilities are:
1. Iran is heavily albeit covertly involved jointly with NK in these tests and developments, thus when NK has the bomb, so does Iran.
2. NK is doing this alone but needs cash and is developing these weapons for sale to the highest bidder. They just gave a successful demonstration for their best prospective client, Iran, thus Iran will soon have the bomb, sooner than they would have under their domestic program.
“... North Korea and Iran...”
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Blog:
Note: The following blog entry is a quote:
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/16525.htm
N. Korea Ambassador In Iran Warns Against U.S.
North Korean Ambassador to Iran So Se Pyong said, during a meeting with Iranian presidential advisor Mahdi Mostafavi, that the U.S. seeks to topple the regimes of Iran and North Korea, and stressed his country’s support for Iran’s nuclear program.
Source: Mehr, Iran, May 18, 2009
Posted at: 2009-05-20
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ON THE INTERNET:
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html