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Report: North Korea developed nukes for Iran at bombed Syrian facility
By DPA
Tags: nuclear program, Syria, Iran 

Experts believe North Korea provided assistance to Iran at the Syrian facility believed bombed by Israel Air Force in September 2007, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.

The weekly said the Syrian site at al-Kibar was used to produce nuclear material the Iranian regime needed to make a bomb.

North Korean scientists worked alongside Syrians and Iranians at the site, where a reactor was being built to produce weapons-grade plutonium, Der Spiegel quoted the intelligence reports as saying.
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The report said Iranian scientists had made progress in enriching uranium but had no experience with plutonium and sought the help of the North Koreans.

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, are due to travel to Syria on Sunday to investigate whether the country was building an undeclared reactor.

Syria maintains the site, which satellite images show has since been razed, was a military installation and not a nuclear facility.

Iran says its nuclear programme is not geared towards making weapons but to generating electricity for its growing population. Tehran's decision to begin enriching uranium in 2006 triggered Western sanctions.

Der Spiegel, which did not elaborate on Assad's reported change of heart, also said Iran, Syria and North Korea had apparently been cooperating in the production of chemical weapons.

It cited an explosion near the Syrian city of Aleppo in July 2007, during which many were reported to have died when quantities of mustard gas and the nerve agent Sarin escaped.

In addition to 15 Syrian military officials, dozens of Iranian "rocket scientists" and three North Koreans were among those killed, the magazine said.

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      1.   How does Syria Help Iran build Nuke Program?????????????????????? 00:40  |  MOE 22/06/08
      2.   Hot dogs, iced tea and my sympathy 01:31  |  Ramius 22/06/08
      3.   harmonious cooperation of the forces of progress 01:31  |  Leon Rosgarten 22/06/08
      4.   THIS CAN NOT BE TRUE 01:31  |  indrajaya 22/06/08
      5.   facility 01:52  |  Shmuelshachor 22/06/08
      6.   Too bad Israel destroyed ALL the evidence. 01:57  |  POP 22/06/08
      7.   Incredible! 02:05  |  Mark Lincoln 22/06/08
      8.   ANOTHER piece of the jigsaw for the apology machine to deny 02:08  |  PETER SM 22/06/08
      9.   Venezuela plan 02:17  |  zarebin 22/06/08
      10.   Credible 02:38  |  Mark Lincoln 22/06/08
      11.   How Did Der Spiegle Get Ahold Of That? 03:53  |  Jeff Northridge 22/06/08
      12.   #4 Indrajaya 03:56  |  Bobby 22/06/08
      13.   How? 04:14  |  Mick 22/06/08
      14.   POP # 6 Correction 04:15  |  Jeff Northridge 22/06/08
      15.   Our Western ignorance: "others can`t to do things we can" 04:33  |  anti-racist 22/06/08
      16.   Poppycock #6 04:52  |  Free Gilad Shalit 22/06/08
      17.   For zarebin (# 9) on the Venezuela plan 05:21  |  Fortuna Benmayor 22/06/08
      18.   Don`t lose your time and energy, Mark Lincoln. 05:23  |  Fortuna Benmayor 22/06/08
      19.   POP Too stupid! Even for you 05:37  |  PETER SM 22/06/08
      20.   Indrajaya`s views 05:43  |  Sam C 22/06/08
      21.   The Iranians have nothing to fear from Livni the defeatist 05:50  |  Henry 22/06/08
      22.   #8 It`s all over the place, PETER SM 06:01  |  Johnboy 22/06/08
      23.   #9, So what? 06:03  |  Persian CAT 22/06/08
      24.   #17. Google this. 06:09  |  ManintheMiddle 22/06/08
      25.   More BS 08:16  |  Abe Snaque 22/06/08
      26.   iraq WMDs 09:22  |  vik 22/06/08
      27.   POP, only if you had less POOP in your brain 09:23  |  Dan 22/06/08
      28.   #4 indrajaya 10:33  |  FLUFFY 22/06/08
      29.   More painfully obvious Israeli propaganda 10:55  |  Clickfool 22/06/08
      30.   #23. I`ll tell you what 11:06  |  zarebin 22/06/08
      31.   JOHNNBOY The boy who repeatedly denied Israel bombed anything 11:46  |  PETER SM 22/06/08
      32.   Stop Leading Goats 11:48  |  Moshe 22/06/08
      33.   CFOOL More painful for you! Der Spiegel is not a conspiracy rag 11:51  |  PETER SM 22/06/08
      34.   Iran moves their nuclear sites to Israels border? 12:12  |  Natallie Durson 22/06/08
      35.   Is G.W. Bush a contributor at haaretz now? 12:49  |  ad 22/06/08
      36.   Syrian and NK help. 12:51  |  Charles Smyth 22/06/08
      37.   natallie durson the idea is as simple as the arabs 12:54  |  yaheskel 22/06/08
      38.   JOHNBOY even more ignorant than I thought 13:01  |  PETER SM 22/06/08
      39.   Pop # 6. 13:02  |  David Nigel Braham 22/06/08
      40.   For Peter SM on Der Spiegel # 33 13:42  |  Clickfool 22/06/08
      41.   US Sources CANNOT be Trusted 13:45  |  Non-American 22/06/08
      42.   Syria`s peachy clean image 13:58  |  allang 22/06/08
      43.   #40 Clicky....I seriously doubt that 14:08  |  Lynn 22/06/08
      44.   # 4 Indy.....the International Community 14:16  |  Lynn 22/06/08
      45.   # 41 US sources? 14:20  |  Lynn 22/06/08
      46.   CFOOL How do YOU know their sources? Your evidence being? 14:41  |  PETER SM 22/06/08
      47.   For Lynn # 43 14:46  |  Clickfool 22/06/08
      48.   For Peter SM # 46 15:05  |  Clickfool 22/06/08
      49.   CFOOL Stern is not Spiegel & Trevor Roper "respected historian" 15:19  |  PETER SM 22/06/08
      50.   #38 PETER SM wouldn`t know a point even if it drew blood. 15:27  |  Johnboy 22/06/08
      51.   # 47 Clicky.....Who do you think helped 15:44  |  Lynn 22/06/08
      52.   I Would Like To See Israel Bomb Iran 15:51  |  Matt 22/06/08
      53.   #22 Johnboy....the really "odd" thing is Syria 15:54  |  Lynn 22/06/08
      54.   JOHNBOY Your point loud&clear.Israel did NOT attack Syrian site 16:00  |  PETER SM 22/06/08
      55.   # 40 clickfool Re:Der Spiegel,show us some proof,links,anything, 16:07  |  terrornator 22/06/08
      56.   Clickfool # 47 How Do You Know? 16:19  |  Jeff Northridge 22/06/08
      57.   CFOOL JUST evidence not CFOOL"logic" eg Johnstones kidnappers 16:22  |  PETER SM 22/06/08
      58.   Iran, The Professional Proxy Puppeteer, Trying In Vain To Hide .. 17:04  |  Lavi 22/06/08
      59.   #54 Don;t know why I have to point this out to a Jew, PETER SM 17:08  |  Johnboy 22/06/08
      60.   The least reasonable explanation of the mystery (due to bombing) 17:11  |  Tosefta 22/06/08
      61.   How Olmert will apologize for not informing the IAEA 17:13  |  Tosefta 22/06/08
      62.   North Korea, Syria and Iran Nuclear Weapons 17:19  |  Randy 22/06/08
      63.   #53 Lynn has apparently not read a thing.... 17:20  |  Johnboy 22/06/08
      64.   #56 Don`t verbal me, Jeff Northridge 17:24  |  Johnboy 22/06/08
      65.   Johnboy # 50 Maybe The Syrians Didn`t Sign 17:42  |  Jeff Northridge 22/06/08
      66.   Zionist rug Der Spiegel lies to (mentally) oppressed 18:06  |  17 22/06/08
      67.   #23 Persian Cat: Maybe Chavez Doesn`t Want Venezuela To Become 18:12  |  Lavi 22/06/08
      68.   The least reasonable explanation of the mystery (due to bombing) 18:26  |  Tosefta 22/06/08
      69.   Iran, The Professional Proxy Puppeteer, Trying In Vain To Hide .. 18:45  |  Lavi 22/06/08
      70.   Let`s recall what Johnboy said... 18:46  |  JES 22/06/08
      71.   So Iran builds it CLOSER to Israel ? LOL, Crap Story