Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Iran Denies Missile and Nuclear Cooperation with North Korea



Iran today denied South Korean and Japanese reports that its military personnel and missile experts were in North Korea participating in a planned launch of a long-term rocket and strengthening cooperation in missile and nuclear developments.

“The claim made regarding missile and nuclear cooperation (between Iran and North Korea) is baseless propaganda and they are trying to create fear so they can undermine our relations with others,” said Ramin Mehmanparast, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman. (IRNA, 11 December)

On Monday, South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper said a group of Iranian missile experts was in North Korea “offering technical assistance for the planned launch of a rocket which Pyongyang terms a peaceful mission.” (AFP, 11 December)

Earlier this month, Japan’s Kyodo News Agency had quoted a Western diplomatic source as saying Iran had stationed defense personnel in North Korea since October “to strengthen cooperation in missile and nuclear developments.” (AFP, 11 December)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Usual US lies and frustration. BTW, congratluations to the Demorcatic People's Republic of Korea for a very successful launch of this long-range space rocket that flew over US occupied Okinawa in occupied Japan. Once again proving the US to be a paper tiger just capable of mere barking when a country has nukes. A good lesson for Iran to continue on its path.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations to the DPRK...

The DPRK manufactures the S-17 and the air defense system similar to the S-300, which Russia refused to deliver to Iran....
Those systems are for defenses so the cooperation cannot be excluded...

What Mark thinks about that, is he still busy with a monitoring tasks for this blog??

A-F