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North Korea and Syria are growing closer: That’s bad news for the US
- North Korea’s decades-old military alliance with Syria is worrying Washington, experts say
- For years, it’s believed the Asian state has supplied Damascus with equipment for the latter’s missile program
- Two North Korean shipments to a Syrian state agency overseeing a chemical weapons program were intercepted this year
Closer ties between two of the world’s most acute political powder kegs — North Korea and Syria — are fanning fears of deeper cooperation on missile technology and chemical weapons.
The longstanding bilateral relationship, which stretches back to the late 1960s, has prospered this year even as both countries face international sanctions. Syrian minister of social affairs and labor Rima al-Qadiri met with North Korean ambassador Jang Myong Ho last week to discuss enhancing bilateral links, Syrian state media reported, with Jang saying his country wanted to help President Bashar…
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