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Why would North Korea help Hamas build tunnels?

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July 28, 2014

According to a Saturday piece in the “>Telegraph, unnamed Western security officials say North Korea is restocking Hamas's fast-depleting supply of rockets and equipment. 

Even more worrisome, according to the report, the North Koreans have used their own expertise in underground tunnels (an “>reportedly hoping to use to pull off a Rosh Hashanah massacre

In case you were wondering, Pyongyang is about 5,000 miles from Gaza City and Israeli special forces aren’t exactly planning to storm the beaches of Wonsan anytime soon.

Yet, for years, Kim Jong-il and now Kim Jong-un, have made arming Iran, “>Hezbollah and Hamas a priority of the North Korean government, which is “>well documented. The Kim regime needs cash to support the government’s bare necessities and to both reward favored insiders and finance the profligate lifestyle any good North Korean dictator would demand. The arms trade is a crucial facet within the North’s moneymaking scheme. In fact, it may be one of the government’s only legitimate means of business, assuming its weapons actually work.

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