Israel Accuses North Korea Of Supplying Middle East With Nuke Technology

A bit unusual for the Israelis to extend criticism so far outside of the Middle East but they have accused North Korea of supplying a number of Middle East countries with nuclear technology. Here's some of the details from Breitbart:

Israel accused North Korea on Saturday of supplying at least half a dozen rogue Mideast regimes with nuclear technology or conventional arms. World powers, meanwhile, urged Pyongyang to stop reactivating its weapons-producing atomic program.
The comments, at a 145-nation Vienna meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, focused on the North's black market role and its reversal of a commitment to mothball its nuclear activities in exchange for trade and security guarantees.

Israeli delegate David Danieli accused Pyongyang of being a black market supplier of conventional arms or nuclear technology to Middle East nations covertly trying to break out of the nonproliferation fold.
While he did not name suspected culprit nations among the "at least half dozen" countries availing themselves of the North's help, he appeared to be referring in part to Iran and Syria, which are both under IAEA investigation.

I hate to be such a doom and gloomer but it appears that the odds of Israel facing any of its arch enemies that do NOT have nuclear weapons in the next few years are pretty damn slim. I have serious doubts at this point that Iran will be stopped from nuclear weapons capability and it appears that Syria will keep trying and trying and at the same time, I think the odds of other countries at least having "dirty" bombs are going to be high.

It's a scary time folks and believe me, with B. Hussein Obama as President of the United States of America, it will be more than scary.

Israel: North Korea adds to Mideast proliferation

VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Israel accused North Korea on Saturday of supplying at least half a dozen rogue Mideast regimes with nuclear technology or conventional arms. World powers, meanwhile, urged Pyongyang to stop reactivating its weapons-producing atomic program.
The comments, at a 145-nation Vienna meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, focused on the North's black market role and its reversal of a commitment to mothball its nuclear activities in exchange for trade and security guarantees.
In the latest setback, U.S. chief negotiator Christopher Hill finished a three-day trip to the North to try to salvage a six-party disarmament pact after North Korea reversed the dismantlement of its nuclear facilities. He was hoping to draw the regime back to the negotiating table with an offer of a face-saving compromise.
Hill then traveled to Beijing, where he held talks with his Chinese counterpart on Saturday, nuclear negotiator Wu Dawei. The two met for about an hour, said Richard Buangan, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
China is North Korea's main ally and Wu represents China in stalled six-nation negotiations that also involve both Koreas, Japan and Russia. Hill later met the Russian ambassador before heading to Tokyo.
Hill did not speak to the media about the talks.
State Department spokesman Robert Wood in Washington told reporters the North was still moving equipment from its nuclear facilities it had put in storage back to its original location.
In Vienna, Russia, China, Japan and South Korea urged the North to honor its nuclear pledge, shortly before the gathering—the IAEA general conference—passed a resolution expressing the same sentiments.
North Korea's actions "will cause serious consequences to the prospect of the six-party talks," said a South Korean statement referring to North Korea and the five nations engaging it on the nuclear issue—the U.S., Japan, South Korea, China and Russia. Japan expressed "serious concern" about the North's moves and urged it to return to the terms of its disarmament for aid deal with the other five countries.
Israeli delegate David Danieli accused Pyongyang of being a black market supplier of conventional arms or nuclear technology to Middle East nations covertly trying to break out of the nonproliferation fold.
While he did not name suspected culprit nations among the "at least half dozen" countries availing themselves of the North's help, he appeared to be referring in part to Iran and Syria, which are both under IAEA investigation.
Additionally, U.S. officials have said that North Korea's customer list for missiles or related components going back to the mid-1980s include Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
Concerns about Iran focus on its refusal to scrap a secretly developed uranium enrichment program that could be retooled to produce fissile warhead material should Tehran choose that path. Tehran is also suspected of hiding past efforts to develop a nuclear weapons program.