Hundreds of nuclear scientists from North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong-il died Saturday, are in Iran, South Korean media report.
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
First Publish: 12/19/2011, 9:50 AM
Natanz nuclear site guarded by anti-aircraft guns
Israel news photo: Wikimedia Commons
Hundreds of nuclear scientists from North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong-il died Saturday, are working in 10 different locations in Iran, The South Korean-based Korea Times reported this week.
North Korea has been known to beworking closely with Iran, Pakistan and Syria on nuclear development, but the disclosure of the number of scientists in the Islamic Republicspells out the close ties between the two powers, part of what Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called the ”axis of evil.”
The Korea Times quoted an unnamed source that the scientists and missile engineers are working at the Natanz and Qom sites, among others. Iran is operating a uranium enrichment plant at Natanz. Despite Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s denials, Israel and Western powers assume the objective of the enrichment plant is to use the uranium to build a nuclear weapon, while engineers tryto build a missile capable of delivering it. Read the rest on: Arutz7
North Korea has been known to beworking closely with Iran, Pakistan and Syria on nuclear development, but the disclosure of the number of scientists in the Islamic Republicspells out the close ties between the two powers, part of what Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called the ”axis of evil.”
The Korea Times quoted an unnamed source that the scientists and missile engineers are working at the Natanz and Qom sites, among others. Iran is operating a uranium enrichment plant at Natanz. Despite Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s denials, Israel and Western powers assume the objective of the enrichment plant is to use the uranium to build a nuclear weapon, while engineers tryto build a missile capable of delivering it. Read the rest on: Arutz7
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