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Iran outsourcing nuclear program to North Korea?

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    New report raising serious concerns for U.S.

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If there are reports now -- nuclear outsourcing raising serious concerns to the US.

Foxnews.com.

Reported Iran's top nuclear scientists.

Traveled to North Korea a few weeks back in defiance of the UN Security Council resolution.

And was on hand to witness the regime's recent successful nuclear test.

General Jack -- retired four star general former vice chief of staff of the army and a Fox News military analyst general good morning to you.

This -- so this was February 11.

And the reporting suggests that the top Iranian scientist was in North Korea.

For the last test that we witness and traveled to China to get there what are we to make of this.

Well Leo -- -- -- on the north Koreans have been cooperative for use on ballistic technology and also on nuclear technology so it.

It's probably not surprising but what it could mean is a very ominous situation listen these states have a lot in common.

They're both -- -- so isolated by the world and they had the United States as a strategic enemy.

And they both want nuclear weapons to help preserve and guarantee the regime's existence.

-- North Korea has obviously accomplished that and the Iranians are very envious of it.

-- -- is moving in that same direction.

I mean at what some of the analysts believe could also be going on which it is a very serious situation that is -- -- May in fact be outsourcing.

The development.

Of its nuclear weapons technology here.

Given that the kind of test that the north Koreans -- They would hire Pyongyang to carry out a lot of us and others ambassador Thomas Graham juniors quoted extensively in this article that you confine our website at foxnews.com.

He raises the possibility that the peaceful reactor could be developed in Iran right now right under the nose of the UN inspectors.

But the devious side of that would be conducted in North Korea how do you see that connection work.

Well that's plausibility to what the ambassador of -- because.

But the reality is Iranians are moving towards the nuclear weapons technology despite.

The sanctions despite all the diplomatic efforts that have been going on for ten plus years they have taken a page at a north Koreans -- the problem they have.

Is actually conducted a test that they conducted a test that would tell the world exactly what is going on and it would not be able to hide it anymore.

Having North Korea conducts -- test for them use being highly enriched uranium which is -- program in the North Korea's program uses plutonium.

And the fact that that's what was used in the recent test.

Last month that's another indicator that something's going on.

There is a trip planned for the president on.

Later this month twentieth of march is -- -- you have to imagine that will be at the top of this agenda here.

I'm with -- with regard to Iran in specific but there's another suggestion they article -- says that this guy may have traveled through China.

This Iranian scientists if you go through China into North Korea.

Are the Chinese complicit here.

Also lived in it doesn't move through China without them knowing who he is and where you go and and -- in tennis and the Chinese of participating.

In the upcoming talks with the -- deal -- and so obviously.

I would assume that our senior diplomats and put something on the table here with the Chinese.

At times in -- complicity here but let let's pretty.

Realistically the Chinese cooperate back and forth with the new with the north Koreans.

At the expense of the United States over and over.

And this is just another indicator of -- check -- out online right now only on our website thank you general -- with a -- Washington thank you sir.

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