MESOP NEW DISCOVERY : UN – North Korea Shipments to Assad’s Chemical Weapons Agency Intercepted

22 August 2017 – eaworldview – “Panel is investigating reported prohibited chemical, ballistic missile and conventional arms cooperation between Syria and North Korea” – The UN says two North Korean shipments to the Assad regime’s agency for chemical weapons have been intercepted in the past six months.A panel of independent UN experts wrote, in a 37-page report to the UN Security Council earlier this month:

The panel is investigating reported prohibited chemical, ballistic missile and conventional arms cooperation between Syria and the DPRK [North Korea].Two member states interdicted shipments destined for Syria. Another Member state informed the panel that it had reasons to believe that the goods were part of a KOMID [Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation] contract with Syria.KOMID, blacklisted by the Security Council in 2009, is considered Pyongyang’s main arms dealer and exporter of equipment related to ballistic missiles and conventional weapons. The UN panel said the intended recipients were “Syrian entities designated by the European Union and the United States as front companies for Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Centre”, which has run Damascus’s chemical weapons program since the 1970s. The experts are also investigating cooperation over the Assad regime’s Scud missile programs and maintenance and repair of its surface-to-air missiles air defense systems. www.mesop.de