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Israel: North Korea supplying weapons to six Mideast states
By Reuters
Tags: IAEA, North Korea 

Israel accused North Korea on Saturday of providing weapons of mass destruction to at least six countries in the Middle East that ignored arms-control commitments.

Israel's delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spoke as the 145-nation assembly of the United Nations nuclear watchdog adopted a resolution unanimously urging North Korea to reverse steps it has taken to revive its dormant atom bomb program.

Israel itself is the target of two hotly disputed Arab-sponsored draft resolutions in the assembly urging it to give up its alleged nuclear arms monopoly in the Middle East, join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and accept full IAEA inspections.
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Israel said there were six Middle Eastern countries which had obtained the means produce doomsday weapons and ballistic missiles covertly from North Korea while ignoring commitments as members of the NPT and other arms-control regimes.

"At a time when the international community concentrates on North Korea's nuclear activities and its non-compliance with safeguards agreements, the Middle East is at the receiving end of North Korea's reckless practices," Israeli envoy David Danieli told the global meeting in Vienna.

"North Korea has long become a source of proliferation of dangerous weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles in the Middle East," he said.

"At least half a dozen countries in the region who do not even pay lip service to control regimes and are acting in bad faith regarding their stated policy and their undertakings regarding non-proliferation conventions have become eager recipients of North Korea mostly through black market and covert network channels," Danieli said, but did not name the six nations.

Western intelligence officials and non-proliferation experts have said that Iran, Syria, Libya and Iraq under Saddam Hussein were believed to have received North Korean military aid, some applicable to mass-destruction weaponry, in the past.

"No due attention is paid to this dark aspect of North Korean behavior which has become a matter of great concern to my government and others," Danieli said.

He said there was growing evidence that such states were "emulating the dangerous unlawful practices" of North Korea, which left the NPT in 2003 and developed atom bombs.

"[We] call the attention of the international community to these dangerous developments and their consequences," he said.
Iran is under IAEA investigation over intelligence allegations of secret atomic bomb research. Syria is under IAEA scrutiny over U.S. reports it had nearly completed a plutonium-producing reactor before Israeli warplanes bombed the site a year ago.

Iran and Syria, adversaries of Israel, deny the allegations. Libya scrapped a covert nuclear arms program in 2003.

U.S. envoy Chris Hill ended three days of meetings in North Korea on Friday meant to salvage the collapsing denuclearization deal, calling the talks substantive but not saying if he swayed Pyongyang to give up plans to restart its nuclear complex.

The resolution passed by the IAEA assembly underlined the need for denuclearization fully verifiable by IAEA inspectors - a demand resisted by Pyongyang and at the heart of disputes that have crippled its denuclearization deal with five powers.

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      1.   But of course, the IAEA is loaded with anti-Israel countries and 14:47  |  Albert 04/10/08
      2.   Albert: Zionist IS a form of racism :) As any national 15:17  |  Philip 04/10/08
      3.   Actually the total is probably 15:56  |  Paul Wood 04/10/08
      4.   Let`s hear some bluster 16:00  |  Bitin Dawg 04/10/08
      5.   N. Korea Factor 16:01  |  Brod 04/10/08
      6.   Give Me a Brake. 16:31  |  Cool B 04/10/08
      7.   Interesting!!! 17:28  |  Persian Hero 04/10/08
      8.   Who is critizising? Nuclear Israel 17:54  |  Petteri 04/10/08
      9.   Has Britan, France, Russia, China disarmed their nuclear weapons? 18:06  |  Give me a call when 04/10/08
      10.   So? Get the IAEA into Israel 18:22  |  betz55 04/10/08
      11.   Fear and suspicion great for business, 18:32  |  Jim 04/10/08
      12.   #4 Brod Nukes instead of nation building 19:03  |  Jim 04/10/08
      13.   to persian hero, Israel has moral right to have nuke, Iran didn´t 19:04  |  JP 04/10/08
      14.   so? 19:11  |  potobac 04/10/08
      15.   6 or 4 countries? 19:50  |  GK 04/10/08
      16.   Persian Hero: Israel hs self-restraint. Others? Nope. 19:55  |  Richard S 04/10/08
      17.   #6 GK 20:19  |  Jim 04/10/08
      18.   I presume Israel will be in the market 20:57  |  Chris Linthwaite 04/10/08
      19.   Didn`t Israel provide 21:00  |  Chris Linthwaite 04/10/08
      20.   North Korea,... is the rubbish of humanity..! 21:20  |  Stephen. 04/10/08
      21.   #10 betz55 22:09  |  Moshe 04/10/08
      22.   #2 Philip 22:20  |  Moshe 04/10/08
      23.   Philip NO UN declaration branded OTHER nationalisms as racism 22:26  |  I 04/10/08
      24.   Philp The day Israel threatens to throw all Arabs into sea 22:29  |  I 04/10/08
      25.   To #8 23:26  |  AJ 04/10/08
      26.   When will Israel come clean? 23:32  |  Janice 04/10/08
      27.   How about sharing nuke secrets with Micronesia 01:24  |  mommy, he`s supplyin 05/10/08
      28.   Simply ridiculous 01:54  |  Iranian 05/10/08
      29.   #19 Chris Linthwaite 01:57  |  Moshe 05/10/08
      30.   israel introduced nuclear weapons in the ME. and whines 02:22  |  American in NY 05/10/08
      31.   Axis Of Evil Dare I say 02:53  |  Baruch Gold 05/10/08
      32.   Don`t forget Burma. 02:57  |  Maureen Ann 05/10/08
      33.   For you anti-zionist 03:10  |  AJ 05/10/08
      34.   I prefer Israel with nukes than Iranian nukes without Israel 05:00  |  Dan 05/10/08
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