If North Korea is helping Syria make chemical weapons, it's part of a long history of outlaw ties

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An incendiary report that North Korea has been providing Syria with material that could be used to make chemical weapons marks the merging of a pair of dangerous storylines involving two of the world's prime powder kegs.
But North Korea and Syria, each led by a dictator who has repeatedly defied the West when it comes to banned weaponry, have a decades-long history of military ties, unbroken and perhaps even enhanced by the pariah status attained by each government over the years.....

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-north-korea-syria-20180227-story.html