The Iranian Foreign Ministry has denied messages about Tehran exchanging ballistic missile technologies with North Korea, Associated Press cites a spokesman of the ministry Ramin Mehmanparast.
Reuters reported last week, quoting the UN, that the two states had been exchanging technologies through a third state. Some believe that the third state was China.
Mehmanparast said that Iran is a self-sufficient state with no need for foreign technologies in missile production. Tests of missiles and satellite equipment carried out by Iran and North Korea cause concern in the West. Experts believe that the two states are developing high-range ballistic missiles. The international community believes that Iran is developing nuclear arms against the background of the peaceful atom.
North Korea became a nuclear state in 2005. It held nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009. The UN Security Council introduced sanctions using resolutions 1718 and 1874. It demands that North Korea stop nuclear tests and launches of ballistic missiles. The Security Council also urged North Korea to abandon nuclear arms and start talks on denuclearization.
