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Increasing nuclear collaboration by North Korea and Iran?

North Korea and Iran increase collaboration on nuclear missile, report claims, Telegraph UK, 22 July 11 North Korea and Iran are jointly working on weapons programmes designed to build a long-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, a leading British security think tank has said.

According to a study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), North Korea’s weapons programmes are now benefiting from technology from Iran.

Pyongyang also possesses technology that would enable Iran’s uranium enrichment programme to increase its output. However concrete evidence that North Korea has supplied the Iranians with its superior equipment has not been uncovered by IISS.

The disclosure marks a disturbing escalation in the race for nuclear weapons technology by the two states which are seen to present the biggest threat to global security.

Mark Fitzpatrick, the IISS expert on weapons proliferation, said North Korea possessed a technological edge over Iran in making nuclear equipment……

North Korea hereditary Communist leadership has growing increasing reliant on its weapons arsenal and nuclear capabilities to secure its future. A regime that has traditionally defied UN sanctions and diplomatic pressure to supply defence equipment to rogue states is now facing an unstable future as its leadership passes to a new generation…..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8653171/North-Korea-and-Iran-increase-collaboration-on-nuclear-missile-report-claims.html

July 22, 2011 - Posted by | Iran, North Korea, politics international

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