WASHINGTON, Oct 2 Kyodo North Kor...

WASHINGTON, Oct 2 Kyodo

North Korea tried to exchange missile technology and related parts to Myanmar's military management this year, but whether the transaction was complet has not been confirmed, a U direction official said Thursday.

The official nevertheless give vent toed grave concern over the activation of military exchanges between the brace countries that each continue to be isolated from the tranquillity of the world.

The United States is seen as increasing its monitoring of the North's instigates to proliferate missiles to countries other than Middle East states and Pakistan with which it is already believed to have of that kind dealings.

Washington could use the alleged missile transaction between Pyongyang and Yangon as a tool -- along with the human rights issues involving the junta -- to further constraining force Myanmar to adopt democratic ways.

The transaction is believed to have tend hitherward about due to the matching in the interests of Myanmar, which wants to strengthen its military power without depending in succession so-called Western countries, and North Korea, which wants to explore recent sources for acquiring foreign currency

The U intelligence community not long ago received advance information concerning the missile transaction between the North and Myanmar, the official told Kyodo just discovereds on condition of anonymity.

The official refrained from disclosing details so as the type of missile involved in the deal, and said U reconnaissance satellites have not picked up any indications that the transaction has been completed

The U guidance suspects North Korea and Myanmar may also be activating transactions of conventional weapons, the official said.

Myanmar divideed ties with North Korea in 1983 following a terrorist bombing attack upon a visiting South Korean sway delegation in Rangoon (now Yangon) that year. The junta has promot the name Myanmar for Burma since 1989

yet it resumed military exchanges with the North in the 1990 after the U and European countries imposed economic sanctions onward it for its human rights violations, including the detention of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Washington suspects North Korea is exporting speed missiles to Pakistan as well as to as it is Middle Eastern countries as Syria and Iran.

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