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How North Korea blackmailed Israel with nuclear weapons A North Korean diplomat reportedly told an Israeli diplomat in 1999 that Pyongyang would provide ballistic missile technology to Iran, a state sworn to destroy Israel, unless it paid up to the tune of $1 billion. North Korea has a long and well documented history of providing weapons technology, including chemical and nuclear weapon infrastructure, to countries like Iran and Syria. While Pyongyang commands a few dozen operational nuclear warheads, according to intelligence reports, its real threat to the world lies not in starting an outright nuclear war, but in selling nuclear weapons to states, or terrorists, that may use them. It's unclear if Israel ever paid North Korea's blackmail, though Israel would later destroy an Iranian nuclear reactor that North Korea was suspected of helping build. North Korea selling nukes is a bigger threat than just building them A test-launch of a North Korean ballistic missile. (KCNA) If North Korea launched a nuclear attack, it would swiftly find itself on the receiving end of more powerful, more precise nuclear weapons. North Korea's nuclear weapons serve mainly to deter attacks. But because of North Korea's decision to defy international law by testing and developing nuclear weapons, it finds itself under heavy sanctions and impoverished. This leaves North Korea as a cash-hungry state with an excess of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology. A terror group or fellow rogue state, seeing the legitimacy and national power nuclear weapons have bestowed upon North Korea, might seek to buy nuclear technology off Pyongyang. While many experts generally expect North Korea to maintain the status quo with its nuclear weapons by using them mainly to deter enemies, it's less clear that Iran, Syria, or especially a terror network would show such restraint. "Depending on the demand, we certainly cannot exclude the possibility that North Korea will sell its nuclear weapons for cash," said Nam Sung-wook, a former South Korean intelligence official told the Wall Street Journal, who first reported on North Korea's attempted blackmail. The UN has concluded that North Korea has a long history of weapons cooperation with Iran and Syria, the US's two foremost nation-state enemies in the Middle East. Iran's stated goal is to destroy Israel, and while their conventional military offers them little hope of achieving that, nuclear weapons actually could do the job. Trump isn't doing anything about this North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump. The US under President Donald Trump has lowered the threat of outright nuclear war with North Korea following talks and a summit with Kim Jong Un, but no work towards denuclearization appears to have actually taken place. North Korea has not shared with the US any details of its nuclear program, and the US has no specifics from the Kim regime on how many weapons it has or where it keeps them. So despite Trump's insistence that North Korea isn't a threat anymore, there's absolutely no way of knowing if Kim would provide nuclear weapons to aggressive states, or use that leverage to blackmail countries for fear of nuclear war. This article originally appeared on Business Insider. Follow @BusinessInsider on Twitter. - North Korea reportedly hands Trump a win by releasing US prisoners › - North Korean defector calls out Trump and Kim Jong Un - Business ... › - North Korea facts you never knew - Business Insider › - North Korea announces it would 'stop nuclear tests' - Business Insider › - 21 photos of North Korea that Kim Jong Un wouldn't want you to see ... ›
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कति छन् उत्तर कोरियासँग आणविक हतियार ? काठमाडौं : महाशक्ति अमेरीकालाई नै थर्काइरहेको उत्तर कोरियासँग कति आणविक हतियार होलान ? यो सवैलाई कौतुहुलताको विषय छ । दुनियालई थार्काइरहेको उत्तर कोरियासंग करिव ६० वटा सम्म आणिविक हतियार भएको अुनमान दक्षिण कोरियाका एक अधिकारीले अनुमान गरेका छन् । दक्षिण कोरियाका उत्तर कोरियाको गोप्य आणविक हतियारको संख्याका बारेमा टिप्पणी भइरहेका बेला सांसद समक्ष ती अधिकारीले यस्तो जानकारी दिएका हुन् । कोरिया एकीकरण मन्त्री चो म्योङ–ग्योनले सोमबार संसदमा सम्बोधन गर्दै उत्तर कोरियासँग २० देखि ६० वटासम्म आणविक बम रहेको दाबी गरेको जनाइएको छ । उनले गुप्तचर निकायबाट सुचना प्राप्त भएको जनाएका छन् । तर दक्षिण कोरियाको राष्ट्रिय गुप्तचर सेवाले भने यसबारेमा कुनै टिप्पणी गरेको छैन । मन्त्रालयले उत्तर कोरियालाई आणविक हातहतियारविहीन राष्ट्र बनाउने योजनालाई निरन्तरता दिइने बताएको छ । उत्तर कोरियासँग के कति आणविक हातहतियार छ भन्ने दक्षिण कोरियाको पछिल्लो अनुमान विगतमा गरिएको अध्ययनकै सेरोफेरोमा आएको बताइन्छ । दक्षिण कोरियाको एक प्रतिवेदन अनुसार, उत्तर कोरियाले ५० किलोग्राम प्लुटोनियम उत्पादन गरेको छ, यसबाट कम्तीमा आठवटा बम बनाउन सकिन्छ । उज्यालो अनलाइनमा समाचार छ । धेरै विदेशी विज्ञहरुले उत्तर कोरियाले अरु पनि गोप्य युरेनियम–प्रशोधन प्लान्टहरु सञ्चालन गरेको दाबी गरिरहेका छन् । उत्तर कोरियाले पछिल्ला दिनहरुमा संयुक्तराज्य अमेरिका र दक्षिण कोरियासँग थप आणविक हतियार निर्माण गर्ने कार्यक्रम स्थगित गर्ने प्रतिबद्धता जनाइसकेको छ ।