Israel: North Korea and Iran cooperate on ballistic missile program

Israel has a lot of evidence that North Korea and Iran are cooperating on ballistic missile program, Israeli Intelligence and Transportation Minister Israel Katz said after North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in agreed to work for a "complete denuclearization" of the peninsula at a summit meeting in Seoul.

Katz said that such a development, should it come to fruition, could have a larger impact of minimizing the threat of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

"He (US President Donald Trump) will have more power against Iran now and maybe to convince the European Union not to be the weak link in the coalition," he noted.

"I think it will be very good if the North Koreans will finish and go out of the nuclear business and capabilities. It will also be good to our region, because there is a connection," Reuters cited Katz as saying.

The minister said the connection between Iran and North Korea pertains to missile technology. "Yes, I think there is cooperation as it belongs to developing the ballistic missiles. And we have the evidence," he stressed.

"We have a lot of evidence," Katz added, shrugging his shoulders without elaborating.