Further intelligence information of the North Korean nuclear cooperation with Syria has been disclosed to North Korean negotiators in the latest attempt to get North Korea to comply with agreements made during the failed stalled six party talks:

The U.S. in recent bilateral talks reportedly gave Pyongyang a list of North Korean officials involved in the supply of nuclear technology to Syria, a suspicion the North denies.

A high-level diplomatic source on Monday said that the U.S. obtained the list of officials including nuclear engineers, who were involved in the supply of nuclear technology to Syria, through various intelligence networks. This persuaded the U.S. that the North Korea-Syrian nuclear connection did exist.

According to the source, it was chief U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill who gave the list to his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye-gwan during their latest nuclear talks. Kim denied knowing anything about it.  [Chosun Ilbo]

I think Joshua sums this one up nicely:

So apparently, being even more busted would persuade the North Koreans, being fundamentally reasonable folk, to “come to Jesus.” [One Free Korea]

This isn’t going to make North Korea to comply with the nuclear agreement they signed because they never had any intention in the first place of getting rid of their nuclear weapons and they are now just stalling in the hopes a new American president will give them even more goodies for little in return.

I’m still wondering when anybody is going to start looking at North Korea’s involvement with Iran’s nuclear program?

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