November 15th, 2012 at 3:33 am » Comments (1)

Why would the North Koreans ship missile components to Syria on a ship making a port call in South Korea?: Diplomats say North Korea is suspected of shipping ballistic missile components to a Syrian company, in apparent violation of U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang. U.N. diplomats say South Korean authorities seized at least 445 graphite cylinders in May from a Chinese ship in the South Korean port city of Busan. The cylinders, which were disguised as lead pipes, were headed for a Syrian company with North Korean links. The diplomats said
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September 22nd, 2012 at 5:03 am » Comments (3)

It appears that the North Koreans are trying to help out their good buddies from the Assad regime in Syria: North Korea requested permission from Iraq this week to fly a plane through its airspace to Syria, an adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told CNN on Friday. Al-Maliki rejected the request out of suspicion the plane would be carrying weapons, said adviser Ali al-Mousawi. The prime minister talked by phone with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Friday afternoon, officials said. Biden asked Iraq for help in stopping
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January 31st, 2012 at 11:20 pm » Comments (3)

One Free Korea has the scoop on how North Korea was caught shipping chemical weapons related material to Syria in violation of UN sanctions: North Korea tried to export ampules of reagents for chemical weapons to Syria in 2009, in violation of the U.N. Security Council resolution banning arms shipments from the country, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The United Nations plans to launch an investigation into the violation soon, diplomatic sources said, representing a rare probe into the reclusive communist country’s arms trade related to chemical weapons. The case
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May 15th, 2010 at 10:53 pm » Comments (0)

Everyone remember the aircraft detained in Thailand filled with illicit weapons from North Korea?  Well the Israelis are now saying Syria was behind the shipment and the ultimate destination for the weapons was Hezbollah: Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman yesterday accused Syria of being behind an attempt to smuggle arms to Hezbollah and Hamas in a North Korean plane that was seized in Thailand in December. “The military cooperation between Syria and North Korea endangers the stability of both Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and it violates all the accepted
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August 25th, 2009 at 6:39 pm » Comments (0)

I have long been following the accusations surrounding Myanmar’s nuclear program and here is the latest twist I found of interest: Further evidence of the Myanmar government’s apparent desire to acquire military nuclear capability was supplied recently by David Albright, the head of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, which specializes in tracking worldwide nuclear proliferation. Albright published information on the institute’s Web site saying senior officials of the North Korean company, Namchongang Trading Corporation, recently visited Myanmar. Western countries have imposed sanctions on this company and
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June 22nd, 2008 at 7:21 pm » Comments (3)

According to the German news weekly Der Spiegel, the Syrian nuclear facility built with North Korean expertise has now been linked to the Iranian nuclear program: Syria and North Korea helped Iran to develop its nuclear program through the construction of a suspected nuclear site in Syria that Israel destroyed last September, according to the German newsweekly Der Spiegel. But Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is considering withdrawing his support for the Iranian program, the magazine says, quoting German secret service reports. According to those intelligence reports, it said, a joint
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April 26th, 2008 at 7:28 am » Comments (6)

The complete CIA video shown to the US Congress recently concerning the Syrian-North Korean nuclear connection has now been posted on the Internet for the public to view: Online Videos by Veoh.com There is also a YouTube version of the video available that I have posted below as well: After viewing video evidence there is pretty much no way anyone cannot come to the conclusion that the Syrians were building a nuclear reactor with North Korean assistance.  Here are some of the best shots from the video that show that
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April 25th, 2008 at 9:27 pm » Comments (9)

UPDATE: The CIA video briefing along with additional photographs of Syria’s Al Kibar nuclear facility have been released and can be viewed by clicking here. ______________________________________________ More and more information briefed to Congress in regards to the Syrian-North Korean nuclear connection is making its way into the media to include many of the photographs to include one of the nuclear reactor itself: Here is an Al Jazeera report on the release of the photographs to Congress: It is nice to see what the nuclear facility looks like from ground level
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