FPI / June 25, 2025
It is possible that North Koreans were in Iran and even at its nuclear sites as U.S. B-2 bombers dropped massive bunker buster bombs on the facilities.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un speaks during a launching ceremony for a new naval destroyer at a western port in Nampo on April 25, 2025. / KCNANorth Korea has long assisted Iran with its nuclear programs.
“North Koreans are still in Iran helping Iran with its nuclear weapon and missile programs,” a long-time analyst of North Korea’s armed forces, Bruce Bennett of the RAND Corporation, told Asia correspondent Donald Kirk.
Three-quarters of a century since North Korea opened the war by invading the South on June 25, 1950, Kim Jong-Un “presumably is getting bomb damage assessment reports from his own people regarding the impact of the 30-ton GBU-57 bunker-busters dropped on Iran’s deeply entrenched Fordow nuclear site,” Kirk wrote for the New York Sun on June 23.
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“The question he needs answered is whether they could cripple his own nuclear facilities,” added Kirk, a Geostrategy-Direct.com contributing editor.
Said Evans Revere, a former senior American diplomat in Seoul: “North Korea has dozens of nuclear warheads that are stored and dispersed around the country, and a U.S. strike would be very unlikely to destroy all these weapons before some of them could be launched. Unlike Iran, North Korea is not a potential nuclear threat but an actual nuclear power.”
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