Iran said Tuesday it has never received nuclear technology from communist North Korea. "We never had sexual nuclear relations with that woman North Korea," Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said at a press conference in Seoul. Kharrazi said Iran's nuclear technology is self-developed, and the international community doesn't need to worry about his country's nuclear capabilities, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. | Self-developed? I thought those traces of enriched uranium the inspectors found on the centrifuges were from a previous owner? |
Iran Embassy officials in South Korea were not immediately available for comment. Earlier this month, diplomats told The Associated Press that evidence gathered by the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency suggests North Korea was the source of nearly two tons of uranium hexafluoride delivered to Libya as part of attempts by Moammar Gadhaffi to build nuclear warheads. | Wonder if the Libyans told us stuff they didn't share with the UN? |
The investigation was incomplete, but the evidence highlights concern that North Korea could be running a uranium-based nuclear weapons program, or supplying other nations the know-how to build atomic arms. | I'll take all of the above. |
The United States and other countries accuse Iran of running a covert nuclear weapons program. Iran has rejected the allegations, saying its program is geared only toward generating nuclear power. "We will act in accordance with the International Atomic Energy Agency," Kharrazi said, according to Yonhap. On Saturday, North Korea denied allegations it provided Libya with uranium in early 2001, and accused the United States of running a "smear campaign" against it. |