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Discussing cables If you find meaningful or important information in a cable, please link directly to its unique reference number. Is there a Burma-North Korea-Iran nuclear conspiracy? Andrew Selth is a Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute. He has recently returned from Burma and Thailand. If the Obama Administration was looking for another foreign policy challenge, all it would have to do is take seriously the rumours circulating in Thailand that Burma is pursuing a secret nuclear weapons program, with help from North Korea and Iran. These stories have all the ingredients of a real security nightmare. The question is, are any of them true? In 2000, when Burma’s military government announced it was going to purchase a 10MW light water reactor from Russia, activist groups immediately warned that the generals were not to be trusted. The activists cited the regime’s long record of duplicity, its abiding fear of external intervention (particularly from the US) and its customary disregard for international norms of behaviour.
At the time, these suspicions were greeted with scepticism. Yet the official view of Burma’s status remained unchanged. Top-level Iranian officials in Burma. A delegation from Iran yesterday met with senior Burmese ministers, including foreign minister Nyan Win, in Burma’s secretive capital of Naypyidaw. All eyes will be on the meeting following international concern about Burma’s military ambitions: the two countries were derided as “outposts of tyranny” in 2005 by then-US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, and both are now subject to tough Western sanctions that target their arms market. Burma’s state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper said today that the “goodwill delegation” from Iran included Tehran’s deputy foreign minister Mohammed Ali Fathollahi, although did not elaborate on what was discussed.
His Burmese counterpart, Maung Myint, made a similar visit to Iran in March this year, where according to the NAM news agency the two ministers “exchanged views on promotion of friendly relations between the two countries [and] further co-operation at the United Nations”. Maung Myint also called on Iran’s petroleum and commerce ministries. Burma, North Korea and WMD: A postscript. Andrew Selth is Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute. Since the release of the Democratic Voice of Burma's (DVB) compelling documentary film on Burma's military ambitions and the written report on nuclear related activities in that country (which I wrote about here), the report's co-authors have given a number of interviews to the news media. They have both made statements about North Korea's possible role in Burma's nascent nuclear weapons program: Robert Kelley, a former senior IAEA inspector, is quoted on the DVB's website as saying: '(North Korea's) role in the nuclear program is only anecdotal'.Ali Fowle, a DVB researcher, told the Voice of America: 'None of our evidence implies that North Korea has anything to do directly with evidence that we think points to a nuclear program'.
These comments are more specific and go further than anything in the DVB's written report. The Burma-North Korea Axis - NYTimes. North Korea revisited.
U.S. Said to Stop North Korea Missile Shipment to Myanmar. Washington made no announcement about the operation, which paralleled a similar, far more public confrontation with two years ago. But in response to questions about what appears to be a growing trade in missiles and missile parts between North Korea and Myanmar — two of the world’s most isolated governments — American officials have described the episode as an example of how they can use a combination of naval power and diplomatic pressure to enforce United Nations sanctions imposed after the North’s last nuclear test, in 2009.
It was a rare victory: a similar shipment of suspected missile parts made it to Myanmar last year before American officials could act. Despite the Obama administration’s efforts to squeeze North Korea with both economic and trade sanctions, there are continuing reports of sophisticated missile technology exchanges, some of it by air, between North Korea and Iran, among other nations. The extent of that trade is unclear to American intelligence agencies.