CNN.com – U.S.: Iranians witnessed N. Korea missile test – Jul 20, 2006
One or more Iranians witnessed North Korea’s recent missile tests, deepening U.S. concerns about growing ties between two countries with troubling nuclear capabilities, a top U.S. official said Thursday.Askedat a U.S. Senate hearing about reports that Iranians witnessed the July 4 tests, Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill, the chief U.S. negotiator with Pyongyang, replied: “Yes, that is my understanding” and it is “absolutely correct” that the relationship is worrisome.Hill’s
comments are believed to be the first public U.S. confirmation that Iranian representatives observed the seven tests, which involved one launch of a long-range ballistic missile, which failed soon after being fired, and six tests of short and medium-range missiles.Hill
Hill said the six succeeded in hitting their tarrange.But.
n to sell missiles and possibly also nuclear material.
“Our understanding is that North Korea has had a number of commercial relations in the Middle East with respect to missiles,” Hill said.
North Korea-Iran ties are of even more concern now as the militant Islamic group Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, is trading rocket fire with Issaid.North and Republican Sen. George Allen of Virginia said during the hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
I’m reminded of Mad Magazine and also of a comic strip in it called Spy vs Spy. First we have Afred E. neuman looking blissfully at the world and going “what me worry?” And then inside you had 2 “spy’s” doing their best to kill each other.
You have to love the power that the US has in bringing together two wildly seperated countries to work on a common goal. The Annialation of the United States. You might think I’m alarmist but look at the countries involved. First we have Iran that has been preaching in the streets “Death to the Great Satan” for decades. And then we have North Korea who we’ve been at war with since the 1950′s and whose “great and powerful leader” is more then a little batty. He’s also a person with Napolean complex and a great wanting to finish his “manifest destiny.” Which has scared the shit out of the Japanese and made China nervous enough to arrange talks between one of their strongest partners and the US.
There has been much talk about how conflicts are “popping up” all over th world, with little thought that these where mainly smoldering embers that have broken into wildfires.
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