U.S. has evidence Iran provided submarine weapon technology to North Korea

[ErnstBlofeld]

East Asia Intel:

A senior Pentagon official told Congress last week that Iran has shared military technology with North Korea, including submarine weaponry.


Wallace Gregson, assistant defense secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, told the Senate Armed Services Committee Sept. 16 in response to questions from Sen. John McCain that there is evidence of Iranian transfers of weaponry to North Korea.
Asked “do you currently see any evidence of technology transfer between North Korea and Iran?,” Gregson replied “yes,” but declined to elaborate in an open session.

Pressed for details, Gregson said the issue is serious and that “North Korea has demonstrated frequently their intent to violate a number of international norms, sanctions and resolutions to transfer forbidden military technology to more than one other party.”

No details were available but the technology may include the high-tech explosive device used in the North Korean torpedo that uses an explosive bubble to increase the lethality of the underwater blast, the type which split and sunk the Cheonan, the coastal patrol ship attacked in March.

Asked if Iranian technology was involved in the sinking of the Cheonan, Gregson declined to comment in an open hearing.

“Is it possible that the same act of, quote, "provocation" could have been committed against a United States warship just as easily?” McCain asked Gregson.

He replied: “Certainly the ability to attack from ambush, to conduct a surprise attack is a threat. Yes, it could have been attempted."

McCain then noted that “there is a possibility that … the North Korean submarine had the capability to launch an attack on a United States ship, just as they did a South Korean corvette.”

[ErnstBlofeld]

More proof the Iranians and North Koreans are working together.