NORTH KOREAN CHEMICAL ARMS EXPERTS ADVISED SYRIA

Report: North Korean Chemical Arms Experts Advised Syria (AP/Ha'aretz)
North Korean experts discussed how to load chemical weapons onto Syria's Scud C missiles when they met with Syrian officials during a secret visit to the country earlier this month, the Japanese Sankei newspaper reported Monday. A missile exploded at a military complex near the northern city of Aleppo in July at the site of a joint Iranian/Syrian project to fit short-range ballistic missiles with chemical warheads, according to Jane's Defense Weekly. Jane's cited Syrian defense sources as saying the explosion happened during a test to fit a Scud C missile with a mustard-gas warhead when fuel caught fire at the production site.