On an average, 9 flights every month between Pakistan and North Korea. Deal on in full swing.
lPakistan tests N-device
A western diplomat tells the New York Times about a celebration he witnessed in Pyongyang. "I was in the North Korean foreign ministry. About 10 minutes into the meeting, the diplomat we were seeing broke into a big smile and pointed with pride to the (Pakistani nuclear) tests. They were all elated."
Theories abound...North Koreans were present during the Pak test; and Pakistanis may have even tested a device for Pyongyang, just as China is said to have for Pakistan.
In June, Kim Sa-Nae, wife of North Korean economic counsellor Kang Thae-Yun, is found dead in mysterious circumstances. Kang was reportedly involved in the transfers and present during the Pak N-test. The wife had been passing on info to the US, UK about the transfers.
A Pakistani air force plane carries her body back. A.Q. Khan was reportedly on the plane whose cargo included five crates, two big enough to contain centrifuges.
1998...
Internal CIA report says Pakistan sharing technology, warhead-design information and weapons testing data with Pyongyang
That it helped the Koreans build, test a trigger mechanism lThat North Korea began enriching uranium in ’01
That Pakistan helped North Korea conduct a series of "cold tests".
2002...
US president George Bush ignores the report. Instead targets Iraq, invading it in 2003.
2005...
Pak president Pervez Musharraf admits that "probably a dozen centrifuges were sent". More importantly, Khan sent over blueprints, designs, and tonnes of uranium hexaflouride and designs for facilities. Khan gave them a shopping list of what to buy from where, just as he had given the Iranians.