Report: N. Korea to help Iran with nuclear test
Alarming cooperation: North Korea is helping Iran prepare a nuclear test similar to the one the Communist nation carried out some three and-a-half months ago, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.
Alarming cooperation: North Korea is helping Iran prepare a nuclear test similar to the one the Communist nation carried out some three and-a-half months ago, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.
According to the report, the two countries have reached an agreement by which North Korea will share all the data obtained during underground nuclear testing performed last October.
A senior European defense official told the Telegraph that North Korea had invited a mission of Iranian nuclear scientists to study the test's results, in a bid to help Iran carry out its own testing, possibly by the end of 2007.
"The Iranians are working closely with the North Koreans to study the results of last year's North Korean nuclear bomb test," the defense official told the Telegraph.
"We have identified increased activity at all of Iran's nuclear facilities since the turn of the year," he added.
On Monday, Iran has barred 38 inspectors from the UN Nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), from entering the country, an Iranian politician was quoted by Iran’s ISNA news agency as saying.
The agency said the move was a “first step” in limiting cooperation with the IAEA, in line with a demand made by parliament after UN Sanctions were imposed on Iran a month ago over its disputed nuclear program.
Reuters & Ynet
Alarming cooperation: North Korea is helping Iran prepare a nuclear test similar to the one the Communist nation carried out some three and-a-half months ago, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.
According to the report, the two countries have reached an agreement by which North Korea will share all the data obtained during underground nuclear testing performed last October.
A senior European defense official told the Telegraph that North Korea had invited a mission of Iranian nuclear scientists to study the test's results, in a bid to help Iran carry out its own testing, possibly by the end of 2007.
"The Iranians are working closely with the North Koreans to study the results of last year's North Korean nuclear bomb test," the defense official told the Telegraph.
"We have identified increased activity at all of Iran's nuclear facilities since the turn of the year," he added.
On Monday, Iran has barred 38 inspectors from the UN Nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), from entering the country, an Iranian politician was quoted by Iran’s ISNA news agency as saying.
The agency said the move was a “first step” in limiting cooperation with the IAEA, in line with a demand made by parliament after UN Sanctions were imposed on Iran a month ago over its disputed nuclear program.
Reuters & Ynet
posted by Marko at 1/24/2007 09:52:00 AM
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