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Friday, 04 July 2008
Scientist: Pakistan sold nuke material to N. KoreaRead Full Article
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- North Korea received nuclear material from Pakistan in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army during the rule of President Pervez Musharraf, disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan said Friday. Khan told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that the uranium enrichment equipment was sent from Pakistan in a North Korean plane which was loaded under the supervision of Pakistani security officials. His claims contradict his 2004 confession that he was solely responsible for spreading nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya -- and Pakistan's...
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A Pakistani-made Hatf-II or Abdali ballistic missile is loaded on a launcher vehicle rolls in a street during a military parade in Islamabad, Pakistan in this photo taken on March 23, 2007. Pakistan successfully test-fired an indigenous short-range nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Abdalli ballistic missile has a range of 200 kilometers (125 miles), the military said in a statement on Saturday, March 31, 2007.
photo: AP / Anjum Naveed