Source: Youngster (Weapons and Technology)
A number of secret nuclear and missile sites are being built with the help of North Korean technicians in Myanmar, according to the latest cache of WikiLeaks published by The Guardian on Friday. A Burmese officer quoted in a cable from the US embassy in Burma said he had witnessed North Korean technicians helping to construct an underground facility in foothills more than 480km north-west of Rangoon.
"The North Koreans, aided by Burmese workers, are constructing a concrete-reinforced underground facility that is '500ft from the top of the cave to the top of the hill above'," according to the cable. The man is quoted as saying the North Koreans were "blowing concrete" into the excavation, according to the report in The Guardian.
According to the witness accounts, reportedly pieced together by US embassy staff, the work is at an early stage and haphazard. But they regard it as a troubling development, with the risk that Burma could join Pakistan, North Korea and possibly Iran in having a nuclear bomb.
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