From Global Security Newswire:
North Korea used layers of middlemen and front companies to purchase equipment that ended up in a Syrian nuclear reactor that was destroyed by Israel last year before it could become operational, the Washington Post reported yesterday (see GSN, May 8).
The supply network was headed by North Korean businessman Ho Jin Yun, who attracted the attention of U.S. intelligence services as he traveled throughout Europe in the early 2000s buying esoteric equipment such as gas masks, steel pipes, vacuum pumps and aluminum tubes, according to the Post.
Yun’s firm — Namchongang Trading, or NCG — served to coordinate activities between North Korea and Syria while acquiring key materials and technology through firms in China and Europe, according to U.S. officials, European intelligence officials and diplomats.
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