N. Korea Helping Iran’s Manhattan Project
Charles Johnson
Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 8:03 am PDT • Views: 275
North Korea to help Iran dig secret missile bunkers. (Hat tip: GeoPoliticalReview.)
Iran is secretly negotiating with North Korea to build a network of underground bunkers to conceal its clandestine nuclear weapons project.
A team of construction experts has arrived in Teheran to conduct a survey of Iranian requirements. It included a senior North Korean specialist in underground construction who helped to design the bunkers that contain Pyongyang’s illegal weapons programme.
Current talks centre on whether the North Koreans will undertake the work for the Iranians, or act as advisers to Iranian construction companies.
The North Koreans specialise in the equipment and technology used in the construction of underground complexes. In the past, the Communist dictatorship has supplied tunnel-digging equipment for military purposes to Iraq, Syria and Libya.
The legal department of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, which is undertaking the project, recently summoned the managers of dozens of construction companies to discuss possible contracts. …
The Iranians have tried to build their own underground facilities but these were quickly discovered by IAEA inspectors. Now Teheran wants help to build a large new network of tunnels and caves at a secret location in central Iran.
According to Western intelligence reports, the first stage of the proposed project would involve the construction of 10,000 square metres of underground bunkers. Each bunker would be divided into spaces of 1,000-2,500 square metres, big enough to house the equipment needed to produce weapons grade uranium.
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