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A number of secret nuclear and missile sites are being built with the help of North Korean technicians in Myanmar, according to the latest cache of WikiLeaks published by The Guardian on Friday. A Burmese officer quoted in a cable from the US embassy in Burma said he had witnessed North Korean technicians helping to construct an underground facility in foothills more than 480km north-west of Rangoon.
"The North Koreans, aided by Burmese workers, are constructing a concrete-reinforced underground facility that is '500ft from the top of the cave to the top of the hill above'," according to the cable. The man is quoted as saying the North Koreans were "blowing concrete" into the excavation, according to the report in The Guardian.
According to the witness accounts, reportedly pieced together by US embassy staff, the work is at an early stage and haphazard. But they regard it as a troubling development, with the risk that Burma could join Pakistan, North Korea and possibly Iran in having a nuclear bomb.
In a cable dated August 2004 titled "Alleged North Korean involvement in missile assembly and underground facility construction in Burma", one officer working in an engineering unit working at the site where surface-to-air missiles were allegedly being assembled is quoted. The site is the Irrawaddy river town of Minbu in Magwe division, west-central Burma. The officer reportedly said that 300 North Koreans were working at the site, though the embassy, in its cable back to Washington, described this as improbably high.
The officer "claims he has personally seen some of them, although he also reported they are forbidden from leaving the construction site and that he and other 'outsiders' are prohibited from entering". In February 2009, the Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister Khin Maung Win called a US diplomat to deny there was collusion between his country and North Korea over missiles, missile technology or nuclear technology.
There is also a report of a businessman offering uranium to the US embassy in Rangoon. The embassy bought it. "The individual provided a small bottle half-filled with metallic powder and a photocopied certificate of testing from a Chinese university dated 1992 as verification of the radioactive nature of the powder." He said that "if the US was not interested in purchasing the uranium, he and his associates would try to sell it to other countries, beginning with Thailand", a cable reportedly said.
A number of secret nuclear and missile sites are being built with the help of North Korean technicians in Myanmar, according to the latest cache of WikiLeaks published by The Guardian on Friday. A Burmese officer quoted in a cable from the US embassy in Burma said he had witnessed North Korean technicians helping to construct an underground facility in foothills more than 480km north-west of Rangoon.
"The North Koreans, aided by Burmese workers, are constructing a concrete-reinforced underground facility that is '500ft from the top of the cave to the top of the hill above'," according to the cable. The man is quoted as saying the North Koreans were "blowing concrete" into the excavation, according to the report in The Guardian.
According to the witness accounts, reportedly pieced together by US embassy staff, the work is at an early stage and haphazard. But they regard it as a troubling development, with the risk that Burma could join Pakistan, North Korea and possibly Iran in having a nuclear bomb.
In a cable dated August 2004 titled "Alleged North Korean involvement in missile assembly and underground facility construction in Burma", one officer working in an engineering unit working at the site where surface-to-air missiles were allegedly being assembled is quoted. The site is the Irrawaddy river town of Minbu in Magwe division, west-central Burma. The officer reportedly said that 300 North Koreans were working at the site, though the embassy, in its cable back to Washington, described this as improbably high.
The officer "claims he has personally seen some of them, although he also reported they are forbidden from leaving the construction site and that he and other 'outsiders' are prohibited from entering". In February 2009, the Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister Khin Maung Win called a US diplomat to deny there was collusion between his country and North Korea over missiles, missile technology or nuclear technology.
There is also a report of a businessman offering uranium to the US embassy in Rangoon. The embassy bought it. "The individual provided a small bottle half-filled with metallic powder and a photocopied certificate of testing from a Chinese university dated 1992 as verification of the radioactive nature of the powder." He said that "if the US was not interested in purchasing the uranium, he and his associates would try to sell it to other countries, beginning with Thailand", a cable reportedly said.
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