At that stage, North Korea had reverse-engineered Soviet Scud B short-range ballistic missiles, which North Korea supplied along with submarines and guns to Iran during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War.
In search of hard currency for its oil and weapons, Russia had already established new ties with more prosperous South Korea just before the Soviet collapse.
That is why governments in countries with cultures as diverse as the former Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea and Iraq all share one thing -- hate.
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The United States should also insist that the Soviet Union demand an immediate halt to the efforts of other Soviet clients such as North Korea, Cuba and Libya to serve as "surrogate suppliers" of weaponry and spare parts to Iraq.
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The United States should also insist that the Soviet Union demand an immediate halt to the efforts of other Soviet clients -- such as North Korea, Cuba and Libya -- to serve as "surrogate suppliers" of weaponry and spare parts to Iraq.
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Having never visited countries like Cuba, North Korea, East Germany, the Soviet Union, etc.
In fact those relationships go back to the early 1990s when South Korea reestablished diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
The project has also attracted Andrei Lankov, a Seoul-based historian of North Korea who grew up in the Soviet Union and went to college in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.
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We have seen precisely that everywhere such extreme equalization policies have been tried, from North Korea to Cuba to the old Soviet Union and China, and even in the early settlements in America.
Simply put, the United States and its fellow Western democracies must also support democracy and free market systems in nations where the potential for aggressive behavior persists, for example in the Soviet Union, China, Syria, North Korea and Vietnam.
As a result, sophisticated computers, microelectronics, sensors, machine tools, telecommunications equipment and the like will be made available to such nations as Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Vietnam, China and the Soviet Union.
Mr Putin jets around the world to visit former Soviet allies such as Cuba, Libya, Vietnam and North Korea, and cultivates Iran and Iraq.
Former Soviet experts in EMP effects are said to be in North Korea, where they may be advising not only Kim Jong-Il's regime but prospective terrorist clients about how such an attack might be accomplished.
It extends beyond a shared interest in military hardware, to a mutually reinforcing policy of threatening the U.S. A signal event in this relationship took place in 1989, shortly after the end of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, in which North Korea supplied weapons, including knock-offs of Soviet Scud missiles, to Iran.
After all, communists in China, Vietnam, Cambodia and North Korea, Syria's Hafez el Assad, the Soviet central authorities and the Palestine Liberation Organization have all been the direct beneficiaries of the Secretary's diplomatic ministrations in recent months.
His father built North Korea on the centralized economic principles of the Stalin-era Soviet Union and the extreme-nationalis t politics of 1930s fascist Japan.
The Obama administration is, nonetheless, seeking no funds for replacing existing weapons with designs that include modern safety features, let alone ones that are more suited to the deterrent missions of today - against states like North Korea and Iran, rather than the hardened silos of the Soviet Union.
Our swift response to North Korea's invasion gave embryonic NATO credibility as a deterrent to Soviet probes in Western Europe.
Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Italy have reportedly suspended further loan disbursements to the Soviet Union because of the unacceptable level of risk involved in any further business with Moscow center.
In 1950 the UN voted to intervene in Korea when the North invaded the South only because Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union was boycotting UN meetings at the time.
Until North Korea demonstrates that it has abandoned its sinister intentions and the Soviet Union halts and substantially reverses its military build-up in the Pacific no U.S. forces should be withdrawn from South Korea.
North Korea's missile program is based on Scud technology provided by the former Soviet Union or Egypt, according to American and South Korean officials.
Both Iran's and North Korea's supreme leaders will be deterred, just as were successive generations of Soviet leaders.
When Mr. Kim came to power, North Korea was still trying to recover from the collapse of its economic sponsor, the Soviet Union.
What is more, we are unable to introduce new designs that would be better suited to countering threats posed by countries like Iran and North Korea than the hugely destructive weapons developed more than twenty years ago to counter targets in the Soviet Union.
North Korea in the mid-1990s was struggling after the collapse of its main economic sponsor, the Soviet Union, and the subsequent disintegration of the communist bloc.
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