The North Koreans are angry at the allegation of this report. https://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=103135&code=Ne2&category=2 N. Korea Agrees to Syria's Shipment of Scud Missiles to Hezbollah: Sankei Shimbun Video clip link https://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_Vod_Pop.asp?VodURL=1&NewVseq=103135# |
Syria is reportedly obliged to receive approval from North Korea, the technology provider, when handing over missiles to a third party. Citing unidentified North Korean sources, Japan's Sankei Shimbun reports the North Korean embassy in Syria has announced it has "no intention to object to Syria's transfer of Scud missiles to Hezbollah." The daily speculates that the model Syria plans to provide the Lebanese militant group with is the Scud D with a range of 700 kilometers. MAY 17, 2010
A Strategic (or Guilty) Secret All Hands Join to Hide Number of Scuds - 800 (!) - Bound for Hizballah  Barack Obama For ten days, the US and Israel improbably joined forces with Syria, Lebanon and South Korea for a mighty effort to conceal the mammoth figure of 800 Scud missiles held ready for Hizballah in custom-built Syrian bases a 15-20-minute drive from the Lebanese border. North Korea has agreed to Syria's shipment of long-range Scud missiles to the militant Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah. Syria is reportedly obliged to receive approval from North Korea the technology provider when handing over missiles to a third party. Citing unidentified sources, Japan says the North Korean embassy in Syria said it has "no intention to object to Syria's transfer of Scud missiles to Hezbollah." We speculate that the model Syria plans to provide the Lebanese militant group with is the Scud D with a range of 700 kilometers." The Japanese item included the disclosure that the Syrian president needed North Korean approval for transferring the Scud Ds to Hizballah. Given the structure of the ruling regime in Pyongyang, the handover would have necessitated a nod from Kim Jong-il in person.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=175625 Pyongyang slams Israeli 'slander'By ASSOCIATED PRESS AND BEN HARTMAN
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North Korea denied an Israeli allegation that Pyongyang was spreading weapons of mass destruction, and vowed not to tolerate Israel's alleged slander in a statement released on Saturday.
The comment published by the North's official Korean Central News Agency was the first official response to Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's comment this past week.
Lieberman said Wednesday in Japan that North Korea, Iran and Syria cooperate and are the world's biggest security threat because they build and spread weapons of mass destruction.
He added that “we saw this kind of cooperation only two or maybe three months ago with the North Korean plane in Bangkok, with huge numbers of different weapons, with the intention to smuggle these weapons to Hamas and Hizbullah.”
On December 12, Thai authorities, acting on a tip from a foreign source, eized a cargo plane in Bangkok full of more than 40 tons of weaponry, including missiles and rocket-propelled grenades. The Thai Air Force said the plane had arrived from Pyongyang.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=175355
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Lieberman warns of new 'axis of evil'
By BEN HARTMAN05/12/2010 10:30
In Japan, FM says Pyongyang plotting to run arms to Hamas, Hizbullah.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman accused North Korea on Wednesday of plotting to run arms to Hamas and Hizbullah, and said Pyongyang was part of a new “axis of evil” along with Syria and Iran.
Speaking to reporters during a visit to Tokyo, Lieberman said, “This axis of evil that includes North Korea, Syria and Iran, it’s the biggest threat to the entire world – not to Israel, but to the entire world.”
He added that “we saw this kind of cooperation only two or maybe three months ago with the North Korean plane in Bangkok, with huge numbers of different weapons, with the intention to smuggle these weapons to Hamas and Hizbullah.”
On December 12, Thai authorities, acting on a tip from a foreign source, seized a cargo plane in Bangkok full of more than 40 tons of weaponry, including missiles and rocket-propelled grenades. The Thai Air Force said the plane had arrived from Pyongyang.
According to flight documents seized aboard the aircraft, the cargo was headed for Teheran, where officials denied they were trying to import weapons from North Korea. Iran is a prime supporter of Hamas and Hizbullah and has supplied both groups with weapons and training in the past.
Lieberman also told reporters that Israel was ready to begin direct negotiations with the Palestinians without preconditions, and dismissed the need for so-called proximity talks.
“We have our experience, and we signed two peace agreements with our neighbors – with Jordan and Egypt – as a result of direct talks, not proximity talks,” he said.
On Tuesday, Lieberman met with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, and spoke about Syrian-North Korean cooperation, which he said posed a threat to stability in the Middle East as well as Southeast Asia.
Lieberman told Hatoyama the cooperation was not based on economic interests, but on the the development of weapons of mass destruction and the smuggling of arms.
A source at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem would not comment on Wednesday on how Hatoyama had responded to Lieberman’s statements.
However, the source added that while the foreign minister had not presented the Japanese leader with documents or evidence showing that North Korea was plotting to run arms to Hamas or Hizbullah, his contentions had not been made lightly.
Hatoyama reportedly told Lieberman about the importance he saw in the advancement of the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.
Lieberman invited Hatoyama to visit Israel and said Japan-Israel cooperation was important for the security and economy of the world, as well as the development of alternative energy.
Lieberman also expressed gratitude for Japan’s support of Israel’s acceptance this week to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and of the 1917 Balfour Declaration that called for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
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