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Friday, July 22, 2011

40% of Missiles in Developing World Came from N.Korea

Forty percent of ballistic missiles developing nations have imported since 1987 came from North Korea, VOA reported Thursday.

The claim comes in a report titled "The Evolution of North Korea's Ballistic Missile Market" by Joshua Pollack, a nuclear proliferation expert at the U.S. Science Applications International Corporation, who says, "More than 40 percent of the roughly 1,200 theater ballistic missile systems supplied to the developing world between 1987 and 2009 came from North Korea."

During this period Iran, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Yemen, the U.A.E., and Pakistan imported missiles from the North. The North topped the list of ballistic missile suppliers, followed by Russia (400) and China (270).

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