1998...
- 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.
