Iran is probably collaborating with North Korea on ICBMs

CNBC:
A former CIA analyst said Monday the Iranians are continuing to help North Korea with weapons technology as Pyongyang's new missile test over the weekend was described as "a significant advance."

North Korea's launch of an intermediate ballistic missile test on Sunday appears to be a new model and shows an improved capability to reach U.S. military bases on Guam. Also, experts said the new missile is a mid-range ballistic missile and suggests Pyongyang maybe getting more proficiency with reentry technology that could be used for longer-range missiles.

Such reentry mastery would be required for a nuclear warhead to withstand extreme temperatures and other stresses of atmospheric reentry of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

"It was a significant advance in terms of missiles that seem to be able to carry a fairly heavy warhead and carry it a fairly significant distance," said Fred Fleitz, a former CIA analyst and now senior vice president for policy and programs with the Center for Security Policy, a national security think-tank based in Washington.

At the same time, Fleitz said there's "pretty credible information" that the North Koreans have received help in their missile program from Tehran. "It's going in both directions," he said.
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The former CIA analyst added, "The Iranians have been more successful in building space-launch vehicles. They actually further developed some of the designs that they received from North Korea — and they further designed other missiles they got from North Korea. And their improvements have gone back to North Korea."

For example, Tehran's Shahab-3 ballistic missile capable of reaching Saudi Arabia from Iranian land is based on technology from North Korea's Nodong-1 rockets. Also, Iran's Ghadir small submarine, which this month conducted a cruise-missile test, is a vessel remarkably similar to those used by Pyongyang.

Indeed, Fleitz said there are reports Iranian scientists have attended launches of North Korean long-range missile tests and even nuclear tests. It's not known if Iranian military or scientists attended the North's missile test Sunday and it's also not clear at this time how much help Tehran played in the development of the new missile known as the Hwasong-12.
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This is another reason why the Iran deal is illusory.  Iran is still developing its nuclear program and its ICBM program and using North Korea as a proxy for its development.  Is there anything in the deal that would keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon from North Korea?  The Europeans who still like the Iran deal need to wise up as to what is really happening.

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