N. Koreans said working at secret site near Teheran on nuke warheads
North Korea has been helping Iran develop nuclear warheads for missiles, according to an Iranian opposition group.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an anti-Iranian government organization, said last week that Iran set up a secret facility in the suburbs of Teheran for dozens of North Korean experts to design rockets and warheads.
According to the group, the North Koreans used an improved version of the Shihab-3 missile, modeled after North Korea's No-Dong missile. Its warhead is said to be compatible with that of the No-Dong.
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The group first disclosed details of Iran’s nuclear program in 2002.
U.S. officials have said that the nuclear supplier network headed by Pakistani A.Q. Khan provided blueprints of nuclear missile warheads to Libya. The blueprints, in Chinese, were found during Libya’s denuclearization program.
U.S. officials suspect that the Khan network also supplied warhead blueprints to Iran and North Korea.