Rühle, who is widely respected among defense and security officials, writes that “Iran’s military was capable of testing a nuclear warhead in North Korea in 2010. It is therefore not surprising if some intelligence agencies are now of the view that North Korea, in fact, in 2010, conducted at least one nuclear test for Iran.”
He continues that “for a number of years intelligence agencies have registered close work between North Korea and Iranian experts in connection with the preparation of nuclear tests. The suspicion up until now has been of an underground nuclear weapons test on Iranian territory.”
In connection with the North Korean test of an Iranian nuclear weapon, the former German defense official Rühle noted that it is not atypical for countries to test nuclear devices for foreign countries.
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