The new Axis of Evil carries on. The Dear Leader isn’t satisfied with just starving and murdering his own people. He’s working on making sure he helps murder Israelis as well. This is on top of supplying Syria with nukes.
North Korea may have given arms to Lebanon’s Hizbullah and Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, according to a report compiled for Congress that could complicate US plans to drop Pyongyang from its terrorism blacklist.
The report obtained on Wednesday by Reuters was written by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which provides independent analysis to Congress, and cited “reputable sources” as saying Pyongyang had given arms and possibly training to the militant groups, which Washington regards as “terrorist” organizations.
North Korea, Syria, Iran.
It said that in September 2006, Paris Intelligence Online, a French Internet publication that specializes in political and economic intelligence, had published details of an extensive North Korean program to give arms and training to Hizbullah.
[…] The French publication said the program began in the 1980s with visits by Hizbullah members to North Korea for training and expanded after 2000 with the dispatch of North Koreans to Lebanon to train Hizbullah members how to build underground bunkers to store arms, food and medical facilities.
It said this training “significantly improved Hizbullah’s ability to fight the Israelis” during the 2006 war.
The CRS document also cited a report by a prominent South Korean academic, Moon Chung-in, that the Mossad Israeli intelligence agency believed that “vital missile components” used by Hizbullah against Israel came from North Korea.
The bad news is that this training worked. The good news is that Israel’s enemies are still fighting the last war, while Israel is planning and working towards the next one.
In a possible war with Syria, he said, the army would not combat rocket attacks on Israel’s home front as it had during the war in Lebanon. “So long as there are rockets falling on homes in Israel – we can not win the war. We will not fight as the army has in the past. We will not only operate against the rocket launchers themselves but also create a situation where the other side’s desire to launch these attacks sufferers, the price for these attacks will be steep – and the enemy will have to decide whether it can keep fighting.
“In a playground like Syria, we have the capability to strike them,†said Ashkenazi.
In every generation, they rise against us. In some generations, more than others.