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North Korea May Be Aiding Syria's Deadly Gas Attacks On Civilians

March 01, 2018 23:50·
Man with a child are seen in hospital in the besieged town of Douma Eastern Ghouta Damascus Syria

Man with a child are seen in hospital in the besieged town of Douma Eastern Ghouta Damascus Syria

North Korean missile technicians have also reportedly been seen working at weapons facilities inside Syria.

2 that according to the experts' report, North Korea was flouting United Nations sanctions on oil and gas, engaging in prohibited ballistic missile co-operation with Syria and Myanmar, and illegally exporting commodities that brought in almost $200 million Dollars in just nine months past year. However, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has routinely rebuffed the reports of chemical weapons usage in the country.

Specifically, the investigators found North Korea is shipping materials useful in chemical weapons production to the regime in Damascus, and North Korean missile technicians have been spotted at chemical weapons laboratories and missile production facilities in Syria.

While talking to CNN, the United Nations diplomat said that after sending the chemical weapons supplies to Syria, missile experts from North Korea visited the country in 2016 and 2017 to assess the situation.

Although experts, who read the report, said that the evidence it cited did not prove conclusively that there was ongoing and continuous cooperation between North Korea and Syria on chemical weapons, they said it did deliver the most detailed account to date of the two countries' efforts to evade sanctions meant to restrain their military expansion.

"North Korea has a sordid history of supplying rogue states like Syria with weapons of mass destruction technology for cash".

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Regardless, nobody thought Assad actually gave up all of his chemical weapons, and his army is believed to have carried out multiple chlorine-gas attacks this year as well as another sarin attack last April.

The reports come at a sensitive time when South Korea is striving to arrange denuclearization talks between Pyongyang and Washington. In November, Russia used its Security Council veto to end the work of an independent panel investigating chemical weapons used in the Syrian conflict. These accusations surfaced previous year after the Syrian government was accused of dropping the nerve gas sarin on a town held by rebels, resulting in the excruciatingly painful death of 90 people.

The UN experts say that an unnamed member state also reported that North Korea continues to keep a "global procurement network" for finding parts. One of the few Western leaders who have spoken about the issue is U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who suggested if "inconvertible" evidence is discovered that Syrian government has used chemical weapons on civilians, then military action should be considered.

The United States said it has evidence that Syria has used chlorine gas in attacks in recent weeks.

The UN report is said to highlight its efforts to illicitly trade with dozens of countries and groups in the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America.

Syria and North Korea have decades-old military ties.

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