North Korea tests show Iran already has nuclear capability, expert says
A German expert on nuclear proliferation claims Iran has carried out two nuclear tests on the territory of its ally North Korea, contesting the widespread belief that the Islamic Republic is not yet able to build nuclear weapons.
“By now, several intelligence agencies assume that North Korea in 2010 indeed performed one nuclear test for Iran,” Hans Rühle, formerly a senior official in the German Defense Ministry, asserted Sunday in the daily Die Welt. Rühle said a second North Korean test was also carried out that year on Iran’s behalf.
On the same day, US President Barack Obama, speaking at the annual conference of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, said that the United States and Israel “both assess that Iran does not yet have a nuclear weapon.”
Rühle based his speculations on the research of a Swedish nuclear physicist, Lars-Erik de Geer, an analyst for a Stockholm-based research institute. While de Geer assumes that North Korea secretly performed two tests of its own nuclear weapons in 2010, Rühle believes that the reclusive Communist regime was actually testing Iranian weapons.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/report-iran-tested-nuclear-bombs-in-north-korea/
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