North Korea Has Been Trying To Help Syria’s Assad Build His Chemical Weapons Program

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North Korea Has Been Trying To Help Syria’s Assad Build His Chemical Weapons Program
By Callum Paton On 8/22/17 at 7:36 AM

North Korean shipments of chemical weapons bound for Syria were intercepted just months after the regime of Bashar Al-Assad killed at least 90 people in a sarin gas attack, a confidential U.N. report has outlined.

The report, by a panel of U.N. experts into sanctions violations by North Korea and intended only to be seen by the Security Council, details how a dummy corporation, a front for North Korea’s arms dealing ventures, attempted to send two shipments to a Syrian government agency responsible for the country's chemical weapons program.

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The Norks also tried to build a nuclear facility in Syria before Israel took it out in 2007.