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Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Myanmar, North Korea in missile nexus

ScudMilitary-run Myanmar's growing weapons ambitions, including new revelations that the reclusive regime is producing long-range Scud-type missiles with North Korean assistance, threaten to destabilize the region and make the Southeast Asian country a new global weapons proliferation hotspot.

According to exclusive information received by Asia Times Online, one of two munitions factories located near the small town of Minhla on the west bank of the Ayeyarwady River, south of Minbu in Magway Division, is involved in the production of sophisticated Scud-type missiles.

North Korean experts are reportedly assisting Myanmar's own military technicians in the top-secret project.

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