North Korea is shipping something to Syria, and the U.S. is wondering what it is:
The official could not confirm several recent news reports that nuclear material from North Korea has arrived in Syria and was the potential target of a recent Israeli airstrike there.
In fact, he said none of the information he had reviewed as part of his job indicated any nuclear material was involved.
Some of the material is believed to have been high-grade metals that could be used in weapons such as missiles or solid-fuel rocket technology.
But “there is concern with shipments going into the region and with their eventual arrival in Syria,” the official said.
It is speculated that one of these shipments was the target of an Israeli airstrike. All things considered both Israel and Syria are very quiet about the strike. It has been suggested that nuclear materials were the target.
When the ship bringing the material to Syria started in to port, it switched its flag from North Korea to South Korea.
A suspicious North Korean freighter that re-flagged itself as South Korean before off-loading an unknown cargo at the Syrian port of Tartous is at the centre of efforts today to investigate Israel’s recent airstrike on Syria.
An Israeli on-line data analyst, Ronen Solomon, found an internet trace for the 1,700-tonne cargo ship, Al Hamed, which showed the vessel started to off-load what Syrian officials categorised as “cement” on Sept 3.
Something is going on there and I am just glad that we are all over it, and Israel still has the nerve to handle it.
