Leader Of North Korean Parliament Heads To Syria On Mysterious Visit
A high-level North Korean official left on Saturday for an overseas trip including a visit to Syria, the North’s state media reported, amid suspicions the two countries might be cooperating on a secret nuclear program.
Choe Thae Bok, speaker of the North’s rubber-stamp parliament, will also visit Italy during the trip, the North’s Korean Central News Agency said in a brief one-sentence dispatch that gave no further details.
The trip comes amid lingering suspicions that North Korea may be providing nuclear assistance to Syria.
North Korea provides missile technology to Syria, but has strongly denied accusations that it spreads its nuclear expertise beyond its borders. Syria also has denied receiving any North Korean nuclear help.
The two countries accused US officials of spreading the allegations for political reasons.
Andrew Semmel, acting US deputy assistant secretary for nuclear nonproliferation policy, said in September that North Korean personnel were in Syria, and that Damascus may have had contacts with “secret suppliers” to obtain nuclear equipment.
Last month, a high-level Syrian delegation visited Pyongyang.
North Korea, which conducted its first-ever nuclear test last October, has been compliant in international talks aimed at dismantling its nuclear program. In July, Pyongyang shut down its sole operating nuclear reactor and pledged earlier this month to disable it by year’s end.
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Stopping by in Italy too eh? What is the “Dear Leader” out of Italian wine? Need a new pair of shoes or something?
October 13th, 2007 at 12:10 pmIt continually floors me that these fearless leaders of these third world hell holes have all this money for these weapons but can’t find the money to improve the standard of living in their countries. It’s like that buffoon Fox presently on a book tour here in the States. We buy all their oil that comes from the corrupt Mexican government’s PEMEX and the money doesn’t trickle down to the population. We’re witnessing an ethnic cleansing by them running off the descendents of the Aztecs and Mayans so that the descendents of the Spainish settlers can live phat.
October 13th, 2007 at 12:50 pmAfter Israel hit Syria, Syria probably refused to pay North Korea for the technology that was destroyed by Israel. North Korea may be sending a direct message as to what will happen to Syria for non-payment.
Analysts Find Israel Struck a Nuclear Project Inside Syria - New York Times:
October 13th, 2007 at 12:59 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/washington/14weapons.html?ei=5088&en=50414c776e8dfd65&ex=1350014400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
There is nothing left to sift though out there NK! Israeli special forces took it all away. You snooze, you lose fuckers!
October 13th, 2007 at 1:44 pm