Did North Korea ship enriched uranium to Iran???
I really hope this report is untrue...
The Japanese newspaper Nikkei reported Thursday that several Western intelligence organizations were investigating whether a ship that recently traveled from North Korea to Iran had several dozen tons of enriched uranium hidden in its cargo.
According to the report, the suspected move was seen by some intelligence officials as an effort to hide traces of the highly enriched uranium program to develop nuclear weapons, which the US believes North Korea is secretly pursuing.
According to one Western intelligence source, the ship in question left North Korea last December and traveled through the Indian Ocean. The cargo was then shipped to a location near Teheran.
"The bulk of the [transferred] materials appears to be medium-level enriched uranium," the source said. "It could be further enriched to weapons grade in Iranian facilities."
Western countries fear that there could be some kind of enrichment agreement between North Korea and Iran.
2 Comments:
This is the first I've heard about this. Good work Fred!
Please post ay further details you get about this. I'm certain your readers would appreciate it. I know I would.
'Lost at sea' would have been better than allowing such a shipment to procede. Civilized nations have submarine forces, they should use them.
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