Bruce Klinger’s recommendations for ROK-US relations are interesting, but Korean economic cooperation will continue with or without progress on military matters.
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As far as possible NorK nuclear materials to Syria, there’s nothing additional beyond what’s quoted above. It does have a few more of the diplomatic details about Syria protesting to the UN on the Israeli airstrike (which was probably on Hezbollah training/storage sites for short range artillery rockets):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09.....syria.html

Shalom.

Evidently from Israeli sources, hasn’t hit mainstream US TV reports on major cable networks that I have seen so I thought you might be interested.

I suppose this has to be classified as speculation, still the report does say that the Chinese news agency Xinhua is reporting a statement by the North Korean Foreign Ministry condemning the rumored Israeli airstrike (possibly in conjunction with a ground attack) against a target in far northern Syria; presumably this is when the Israelis would have overflown the possible Syrian nuclear site.

Unless the DPRK foreign ministry routinely comments on everything that happens reference hostilities between Israel and its neighbors (perhaps you-all resident in Korea would know better than I), it does seem unusual that the DRPK would go out of its way to comment on this below-the-mainstream-radar-type of news story concerning far-away events in the middle east.

I’ve quoted below everything from the linked story that has to do with NorK:

“Report: Israel spots nuclear installations in Syria

Israel believes that North Korea has been supplying Syria and Iran with nuclear materials, a Washington defense official told the New York Times. “The Israelis think North Korea is selling to Iran and Syria what little they have left,” he said.

The official added that recent Israeli reconnaissance flights over Syria revealed possible nuclear installations that Israeli officials estimate might have been supplied with material from North Korea….

North Korea commented on the incident Tuesday, calling it a ‘dangerous provocation’, Chinese News Agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday. ‘This is a very dangerous provocation little short of wantonly violating the sovereignty of Syria and seriously harassing the regional peace and security,’ a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

‘The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea strongly denounces the above-said intrusion and extends full support and solidarity to the Syrian people in their just cause to defend the national security and the regional peace.’”

Side note: if the NYT has run a story about this I haven’t see it linked anywhere yet on the internet.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articl.....29,00.html