If Bechtol is right, then Kim has one more thing to sell.

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Bechtol adds that Iranian officials have been present at every major North Korean missile test, as well as both previous nuclear tests.

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Not every analyst agrees with Bechtol's conclusion, but doubters need to come up with a plausible explanation why xenon was wafting over the North Korean countryside last month.

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Experts on North Korean proliferation, such as former defense intelligence analyst Bruce Bechtol, say that Iranians have been present at every previous major North Korean missile and nuclear test.

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Bruce Bechtol of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College will deliver, next Monday at Brookings in Washington, a paper contending that North Korea is now or will soon be capable of building a uranium-core bomb.

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"Most of the top generals and key party leaders, their family ties with the Kims go back to World War II, " said Bruce Bechtol, a professor at the Center for Security Studies at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas.

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