"US Helped Israel Develop Nuclear Weapons"

N. Korea Accuses U.S. Of Helping Israel Develop Nuclear Weapons

By The Associated Press
Last update - 14:59 25/09/2007
Haaretz

North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of actively providing nuclear weapons assistance to Israel while seeking to deprive other countries of the right to peaceful nuclear programs.

..."The United States is shutting its eyes to the nuclear programs of its allies while taking issue with the rights to nuclear activities of other countries for peaceful purposes," North Korea's communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in a commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

"As an illustration, the U.S. has long actively promoted and cooperated with the Israeli nuclear armament plan," the newspaper said.

"They decided to provide assistance to Israel's nuclear development program. Then the U.S. dispatched nuclear experts to Israel and transferred highly enriched uranium, the key ingredient for nuclear weapons, to them."

Israel is widely believed to be a nuclear power, but the government has never formally confirmed or denied that it has nuclear weapons...