The United States believes North Korea has become a major supplier to the Iranian-sponsored Hezbollah group. The U.S. Congress raised the prospect that North Korea was providing weapons, technical assistance and military training to Hezbollah. The Congressional Research Service cited reputable sources that Pyongyang equipped Hezbollah with missiles and rockets used during the war against Israel in 2006.
CRS, which provides independent analysis to Congress, discussed the purported North Korean aid to Hezbollah amid plans by the Bush administration to remove Pyongyang from the State Department list of terrorist sponsors. The report, first obtained by the Reuters news agency, cast doubts on claims that North Korea has ended support for groups deemed terrorists. |