Israeli commandos seized nuclear material of North Korean origin during a daring raid on a secret military site in Syria before Israel bombed it this month, according to informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem.
I am not clear if the nuclear material captured was during the September 6 raid or retrieved earlier in order to convince Washington to support the Israeli strike.
This supports the North Korean origin of the material but does nothing to explain why it was in Syria. Did Syria decide that they have to have a nuclear program (because all the other cool members of the Axis of Evil have them)? Was Syria helping move material to Iran? Or was North Korea just hiding the stuff in Syria until the international community declared North Korea clean andthus eligible for lots of aid from a relieved West?
Oh, and it is believed North Koreans died in the strike, which as I suspected would explain why North Korea knew about the strike quickly and thus condemned it early.
