Hundreds of North Korean Nuclear and Missile Experts Working in Iran

(Korea Times) "Hundreds of North Korean nuclear and missile engineers and scientists have been working at more than 10 sites (in Iran), including Natanz and Qom," a diplomatic source said Sunday, lending credence to long-held suspicions that North Korea was helping Iran with a secret nuclear and missile program. AP reported late last year that Mohammad Reza Heydari, a former Iranian diplomat in charge of airports who defected to the West earlier in 2010, said he saw many North Korean technicians repeatedly and discreetly travel to Iran between 2002 and 2007 to work on the country's nuclear program.


2011-12-16 00:00:00

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