We’re going to turn next to what is a major international story. The White House said late today that North Korea helped Syria develop a nuclear weapons program. You may recall a Syrian reactor under construction was bombed by Israel last year - a reactor the White House said was not intended for peaceful purposes. Our national security correspondent Jonathan Karl is joining us from near the CIA headquarters outside Washington. John.
Charlie, this is a highly unusual release of sensitive intelligence information. It shows not only that Syria was building a nuclear reactor, but that somebody had spies on the ground while it was happening. The video presentation includes a series of photographs taken at a remote construction site in eastern Syria.
The unidentified narrator compares it to the facility North Korea used to create fuel for its nuclear weapons. “Note the similar arrangement of vertical tube openings in the top of the Syrian reactor on the left and North Korea’s Yongbyon plutonium production reactor on the right.” And then, a snapshot of the head of North Korea’s nuclear program posing with his Syrian counterpart.
The North Korean official, Chan Chi Byu (?) is well-known to US officials as one of North Korea’s top nuclear negotiators. US officials believe that as construction neared completion, the Syrians attempted to conceal its design. “These photographs show how a light roof and thin curtain walls were added after the main reactor hall was completed.” Finally, the facility is shown destroyed. US officials say it was demolished by Israeli air strikes last September.
The air strikes, however, did not end Syrian-North Korean nuclear cooperation. Today officials said a high-level North Korean team travelled to Syria after the air strikes to assess damage. The video leaves unanswered questions: Who took the photographs? And why is the US government releasing this now, eight months after the reactor was destroyed?
A senior administration official said today that this intelligence was released now to strengthen talks now under way between the US and North Korea about its nuclear program. As for Syria, their ambassador to the United Nation said today that there was no cooperation between Syria and North Korea, and called all of this, “rumors.” Jonathan Karl, reporting from outside Washington. Thanks.
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