As North Korea's atomic bomb test rattled the world, India is set to remind the international community the reclusive communist country's clandestine nuclear and missile cooperation with Pakistan.
With the fifth and hitherto most powerful nuclear test by North Korea on Friday triggering global outrage, New Delhi is set to underline its concern over proliferation risk in India's neighbourhood, particularly over Pyongyang's secret ties with Islamabad. Officials told DH that New Delhi would remind the international community the proliferation track record of Pakistan, which has of late been demanding that its plea for admission into the Nuclear Suppliers Group should be considered on a par with that of India.
New Delhi, too, joined the world to denounce the nuclear test by North Korea on Friday. A press statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs noted that New Delhi remained "concerned about the proliferation of nuclear and missile technologies", which had "adversely impacted" national security of India.
New Delhi tacitly drew attention to Pyongyang's clandestine nuclear and missile ties with Islamabad at a time when Pakistan re-launched its campaign for membership of the NSG, ostensibly backed by China.
New Delhi, according to sources, suspects that now-revealed Pyongyang-Islamabad secret defence cooperation, which in mid-1990s led to supply of Rodong Missiles and technology to Pakistan, is still continuing. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan's nuclear programme, was in 2003 found to have traded know-how and technology with Iran, Libya and North Korea.
Khan in 2011 made public documents in support of his claim that North Korea had bribed senior officials of the Pakistani army and got them to allow him to share nuclear technology and certain equipment with the pariah nation.
New Delhi of late has received inputs, suggesting that certain nuclear materials supplied to Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission by Suntech Technology Company Limited of China were being diverted to North Korea, sources told DH.
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As North Korea’s atomic bomb test rattled the world, India is set to remind the international community the reclusive communist country’s clandestine nuclear and missile cooperation with Pakistan.
With the fifth and hitherto most powerful nuclear test by North Korea on Friday triggering global outrage, New Delhi is set to underline its concern over proliferation risk in India’s neighbourhood, particularly over Pyongyang’s secret ties with Islamabad. Officials told DH that New Delhi would remind the international community the proliferation track record of Pakistan, which has of late been demanding that its plea for admission into the Nuclear Suppliers Group should be considered on a par with that of India.
New Delhi, too, joined the world to denounce the nuclear test by North Korea on Friday. A press statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs noted that New Delhi remained "concerned about the proliferation of nuclear and missile technologies”, which had "adversely impacted” national security of India.
New Delhi tacitly drew attention to Pyongyang’s clandestine nuclear and missile ties with Islamabad at a time when Pakistan re-launched its campaign for membership of the NSG, ostensibly backed by China.
New Delhi, according to sources, suspects that now-revealed Pyongyang-Islamabad secret defence cooperation, which in mid-1990s led to supply of Rodong Missiles and technology to Pakistan, is still continuing. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, was in 2003 found to have traded know-how and technology with Iran, Libya and North Korea.
Khan in 2011 made public documents in support of his claim that North Korea had bribed senior officials of the Pakistani army and got them to allow him to share nuclear technology and certain equipment with the pariah nation.
New Delhi of late has received inputs, suggesting that certain nuclear materials supplied to Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission by Suntech Technology Company Limited of China were being diverted to North Korea, sources told DH.
With the fifth and hitherto most powerful nuclear test by North Korea on Friday triggering global outrage, New Delhi is set to underline its concern over proliferation risk in India's neighbourhood, particularly over Pyongyang's secret ties with Islamabad. Officials told DH that New Delhi would remind the international community the proliferation track record of Pakistan, which has of late been demanding that its plea for admission into the Nuclear Suppliers Group should be considered on a par with that of India.
New Delhi, too, joined the world to denounce the nuclear test by North Korea on Friday. A press statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs noted that New Delhi remained "concerned about the proliferation of nuclear and missile technologies", which had "adversely impacted" national security of India.
New Delhi tacitly drew attention to Pyongyang's clandestine nuclear and missile ties with Islamabad at a time when Pakistan re-launched its campaign for membership of the NSG, ostensibly backed by China.
New Delhi, according to sources, suspects that now-revealed Pyongyang-Islamabad secret defence cooperation, which in mid-1990s led to supply of Rodong Missiles and technology to Pakistan, is still continuing. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan's nuclear programme, was in 2003 found to have traded know-how and technology with Iran, Libya and North Korea.
Khan in 2011 made public documents in support of his claim that North Korea had bribed senior officials of the Pakistani army and got them to allow him to share nuclear technology and certain equipment with the pariah nation.
New Delhi of late has received inputs, suggesting that certain nuclear materials supplied to Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission by Suntech Technology Company Limited of China were being diverted to North Korea, sources told DH.
As North Korea’s atomic bomb test rattled the world, India is set to remind the international community the reclusive communist country’s clandestine nuclear and missile cooperation with Pakistan.With the fifth and hitherto most powerful nuclear test by North Korea on Friday triggering global outrage, New Delhi is set to underline its concern over proliferation risk in India’s neighbourhood, particularly over Pyongyang’s secret ties with Islamabad. Officials told DH that New Delhi would remind the international community the proliferation track record of Pakistan, which has of late been demanding that its plea for admission into the Nuclear Suppliers Group should be considered on a par with that of India.
New Delhi, too, joined the world to denounce the nuclear test by North Korea on Friday. A press statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs noted that New Delhi remained "concerned about the proliferation of nuclear and missile technologies”, which had "adversely impacted” national security of India.
New Delhi tacitly drew attention to Pyongyang’s clandestine nuclear and missile ties with Islamabad at a time when Pakistan re-launched its campaign for membership of the NSG, ostensibly backed by China.
New Delhi, according to sources, suspects that now-revealed Pyongyang-Islamabad secret defence cooperation, which in mid-1990s led to supply of Rodong Missiles and technology to Pakistan, is still continuing. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, was in 2003 found to have traded know-how and technology with Iran, Libya and North Korea.
Khan in 2011 made public documents in support of his claim that North Korea had bribed senior officials of the Pakistani army and got them to allow him to share nuclear technology and certain equipment with the pariah nation.
New Delhi of late has received inputs, suggesting that certain nuclear materials supplied to Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission by Suntech Technology Company Limited of China were being diverted to North Korea, sources told DH.