{"id":36,"date":"2007-01-25T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T23:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:53:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:53:28","slug":"36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/36","title":{"rendered":"Iran and North Korea\u2019s Nuclear Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/01\/24\/wiran24.xml\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story2\">North Korea is helping Iran to prepare an underground <a lang=\"en.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=DL2PZS0UZ3WXPQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=\/news\/2006\/10\/18\/wnkorea18.xml\">nuclear test similar to the one Pyongyang<\/a> carried out last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">Under the terms of a new understanding between the two countries, the North Koreans have agreed to share all the data and information they received from their successful test last October with Tehran\u2019s nuclear scientists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">North Korea provoked an international outcry when it successfully fired a bomb at a secret underground location and Western intelligence officials are convinced that Iran is working on its own weapons programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">A senior European defence official told The Daily Telegraph that North Korea had invited a team of Iranian nuclear scientists to study the results of last October\u2019s underground test to assist Tehran\u2019s preparations to conduct its own \u2014 possibly by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">There were unconfirmed reports at the time of the Korean firing that an Iranian team was present. Iranian military advisers regularly visit North Korea to participate in missile tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">Now the long-standing military co-operation between the countries has been extended to nuclear issues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story2\">Worrisome. If Iran develops nuclear weapons, there could be a war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Daily Telegraph: North Korea is helping Iran to prepare an underground nuclear test similar to the one Pyongyang carried out last year. Under the terms of a new understanding between the two countries, the North Koreans have agreed to share all the data and information they received from their successful test last October [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52318,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/52318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}