– “In April 2008, Congress received a briefing from the CIA on Israel’s mysterious air strike in northeastern Syria, which took place six-months earlier, against what turned out to be a nuclear reactor.

During the long closed-door session, one picture stood out. It was of two men.

One was identified as Ibrahim Othman, the director of Syria’s Atomic Energy Commission.

The other man was identified as Chon Chibu, one of the leading members of North Korea’s nuclear program.

If that wasn’t enough to demonstrate the relationship between the countries, the CIA proceeded to show images of North Korea’s reactor and the one destroyed by Israel in Syria. They were almost identical. And the CIA told the members of Congress that North Korea had built the Syrian reactor.

North Korea’s involvement in the Middle East has not been limited to the help Pyongyang provided Syrian President Bashar Assad in building a nuclear reactor and it is unlikely to stop even after the death Monday of Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s leader for the past 17 years. He will be succeeded by his son Kim Jong-un, believed to be in his late twenties.”

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