Iran Tuesday denied a South Korean report that its missile experts were in North Korea offering technical assistance for the planned launch of a long-range rocket.
Iran
Tuesday denied a South Korean report that its missile experts were in
North
Korea
offering technical assistance
for the planned launch of a long-range rocket.
"This issue is utterly not true," Ramin Mehmanparast, foreign ministry
spokesman told reporters.
"The claim made regarding missile and nuclear cooperation is baseless
propaganda and they are trying to create fear so they can undermine our
relations with others," he added.
Mehmanparast said that during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s "there was
military cooperation, but after the war we continued our political, economic
and humanitarian ties and still have them in these fields."
On Monday, Chosun Ilbo newspaper said a group of Iranian missile experts was in
North Korea
offering technical assistance for the planned launch of a rocket which
Pyongyang
terms
a peaceful mission aimed at putting a satellite in orbit.
The Iranians were invited after
North
Korea
's last rocket launch in April
ended in failure, the newspaper said, citing a
Seoul
government official.
Earlier this month,
Japan
's
Kyodo news agency quoted a Western diplomatic source as saying
Iran
had
stationed defense personnel in
North
Korea
since October to strengthen
cooperation in missile and nuclear development.
North Korea
and
Iran
are
both subject to international sanctions over their nuclear activities. Leaked
U.S.
diplomatic cables in 2010 showed that
U.S.
officials believe
Iran
has acquired
ballistic missile parts from
North
Korea
. A 2011 U.N. sanctions report
said the two countries were suspected of sharing ballistic missile technology.
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