Israel nixed North Korea offer to stop Mideast missile tech transfer

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Israel nixed North Korea offer to stop Mideast missile tech transfer
Israel offered $1 billion in food, agriculture and medicine, but Pyongyang insisted on cash.
By Herb Keinon
July 10, 2018 00:33

Israel rejected a North Korean offer in 1999 to pay it $1 billion in cash in return for not selling missile technology to Mideast countries because it felt the US would opposed the arrangement, according to a newly published memoir by a prominent North Korean defector.

Rather than pay cashstrapped North Korea in cash, Israel – according to the book Cryptography From the Third-Floor Secretariat by Thae Yong Ho – offered to provide more than a billion dollars worth of food, agriculture and medical aid. North Korea rejected the offer.

Pyongyang has been a regular supplier of missile and nuclear technology to Iran and Syria, and reportedly supplied Damascus with the technology to build the nuclear reactor in Deir ez-Zor, which Israel destroyed in 2007.

Read more at: https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israel-nixed-North-Korea-offer-to-stop-Mideast-missile-tech-transfer-562074