Has Iran Developed Nuclear Weapons in North Korea?

by Jerry Gordon (March 2014)


Suspected North Korean nuclear center at Nyongbyon
Source: CTV News

raised the issue of Iran’s Ballistic Missiles. That was prompted by an Iranian test of a missile with sufficient range (900 miles) to reach Israel and US assets. Further there was intelligence alleging that Iran was working on fitting a warhead to a Shahab-3 missile. The Wall Street Journal, reported on February 20th, how Iran had successfully excluded missiles from the final agreement negotiations despite US objections:

The Freedman Report Revelations

said:

Our belief is that China can do more now to urge North Korea to begin taking action to come into compliance with its international obligations. And I will encourage China to use all of the means at its disposal to do so. Now I want to make it clear: China has responded.

Note the similar effort that failed when current Undersecretary of State Sherman led Clinton Administration efforts. But international efforts are further confounded by the lack of access to the regime of President Kim Jong Un. Meanwhile North Korea has rebuilt its nuclear facilities. The same Voice of America news report quoted American Enterprise Institute analyst Michael Auslin on how dangerous the situation is:

A Friendlier Iran? Or Have They Just Moved Their Nukes to North Korea?” We were prompted to interview Freedman following a discussion of this report during a security conference call. In her published report Freedman cited the following:

Those findings were followed a few days later with details on the test of a uranium bomb that may have been detected in mid-January 2014 by seismic services of both the South Korean Defense Ministry and the Japanese Self Defense Forces. According Freedman report:

Between 1990 and 2009, as CEO of Gerard Group International, Freedman developed a global network of over 400 specialists and field assets that continues to provide an ongoing resource of essential real-time intelligence and domain expertise. She now works as a private consultant in counter-terrorism intelligence analysis, basing her analysis on open source and proprietary information resources.


2007 IAF Operation Orchard Al-Kabir Syrian Reactor
Source: Der Spiegel

Evidence of North Korea Nuclear Cooperation

Did Iran Test a Nuclear Bomb in North Korea in 2010? Goldman noted:

evaluation of Israel’s capacity to cripple the Iranian nuclear program created a stir last month.

destroyed the Al Kabir nuclear reactor on the banks of the Euphrates River. The Pentagon went public about these disclosures, while Israel has only referenced the operation. Syria’s Assad has maintained silence about the raid’s apparent success. Watch this CIA video briefing presented to Congress revealing the extent of North Korean technical cooperation in design and construction of a plutonium producing reactor at Al-Kabir in Syria.  This evidence from the Operation Orchard IAF raid may be a precedent for the alleged joint Iran North Korean nuclear development project at Nyongbyon.


Alleged Paraguana IRGC Missile base site in Venezuela
Source: Google Earth

Development of MIRV Warheads and Iranian Ballistic Missiles

noted in an Iconoclast November 2013 post:

Iran, North Korea Secretly Developing New Long-Range Rocket Booster for ICBMs.” Gertz noted:

The booster is believed by U.S. intelligence agencies to be intended for a new long-range missile or space launch vehicle that could be used to carry nuclear warheads, and could be exported to Iran in the future.

Recent U.S. intelligence assessments have said that both North Korea and Iran are expected to have missiles capable of hitting the United States with a nuclear warhead in the next two years.


Watch this You Tube video of The Russian Club-K Missile in a Container E-T-L System

The Iranian EMP Threat

launch-ready missile in a container system known as Club-K, which had already reportedly been purchased by Iran. It could be launched from a commercial container vessel off any US coast or on land from a tractor trailer.  Witness the ship borne vertical launch of modified Scud B rockets that have been conducted in the Caspian Sea by Iran since 2008. This has concerned Freedman and former White House science advisor William Graham about possible use of Iranian nuclear bombs in EMP threats to the US.

Peter Pry, former Congressional EMP task Force head commented in a recent Washington Examiner article:

        
Iranian ICBM Threat

Could Iranian Missiles Reach Florida by 2015?”, comments by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s spokesperson Mark Regev and Israeli Brig Gen. (ret.) Michael Herzog about Iran’s missile developments. As noted in a Jewish Press article by Lori Lowenthal Marcus, Regev commented during a CNN interview:


MANPAD from the Qaddafy arsenal

Rogue MANPAD Threat to Commercial Aviation

“Beowulf,” considers a MANPAD attack on vulnerable US and foreign airlines a plausible scenario in the near term.  As Freedman commented, “only Israel’s national airline EL AL has fully equipped its fleet” with pods capable of deflecting infrared MANPADS. The motivation for Israeli air carriers El Al and Arkia to do that was the November 2002 “near miss” attack by al Qaeda terrorists using a MANPAD at Mombasa airport against a chartered Boeing 757 jet carrying over 261 Israeli passengers on holiday. Freedman observes that Israel is particularly vulnerable to MANPAD attack, as its primary airport is only kilometers away from the disputed West Bank, from where many of the attacks against Israel emanate. She has participated in such a MANPAD threat scenario with DHS, the Coast Guard, FBI, TSA and other national security agencies. She considers “MANPADs to be a very serious threat here in the US, as well as in the Middle East.” 

US Aviation and Space Technology Weekly article in February 2014 discussed the MANPAD threat. She pointed out that while the US has spent hundreds of millions on development of a counter-measure, Israeli defense systems company Elbit Systems, Ltd. has successfully developed and installed the light weight Multi-Spectral Infrared Countermeasure system (MUSIC)  for both aircraft and helicopters. Ehrenfeld asked why the American commercial aviation industry has resisted adopting what Israel’s El Al has done to protect its air fleet and passengers:

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