Iraq–North Korea relations

Iraq–North Korea relations

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Iraq–North Korea relations (

Despite this, new negotiations were undertaken in 1999, establishing Iraqi-North Korean cooperation until 2002. Iraq would in fact have paid 10 million dollars to acquire North Korean Rodong-1 medium-range ballistic missiles according to the Central Intelligence Agency.^[4] In addition, in 2001, an American report affirms that Iraq and North Korean engineers would have jointly built a missile factory in Sudan. Still according to the same source, the Iraqis would have invested 400 million dollars for this construction project, funds obtained thanks to petroleum exports. North Korea also reportedly provided Scud missiles to Iraq, two dozen while the Iraqi ballistic program was largely neutralized during Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War in 1991.^[5]

The overthrow of Saddam Hussein

Since 2004, when the

On 21 September 2012, in the context of the Syrian civil war, Iraq refused a North Korean plane carrying weapons destined for the Syrian Army to pass through its airspace.^[7]

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