This should come as no surprise (International Herald-Tribune):
South Korea’s foreign minister dismissed allegations that North Korea was cooperating with Syria on a nuclear weapons program, a news report said Monday.
“Now, no one is talking about the suspicions regarding North Korea and Syria with a clear basis,” Yonhap news agency quoted South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon as telling reporters.
What are the odds that this issue will come up at the Roh-Kim Jong-il tete-a-tete?
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That’s because the United States dare not share intelligence with the Republic of Korea anymore, now that the ROK government has proven itself wholly unreliable and infiltrated by agents of the North Korean government.
. . . yet Song Min-soon can not explain why North Korea would go out of its way to condemn the Israeli raid on *something*, *somewhere*, in Syria.
Song Min-soon should not have spoken.
Via Yonhap, Song said:
Begs the question: what does Song actually know about secret nuclear facilities in Syria relative to the U.S. or Israel? Probably not much, as that likely is not a focus of South Korean intelligence.