WASHINGTON, May 20 Kyodo A former...

WASHINGTON, May 20 Kyodo

A former North Korean missile scientist forward Tuesday accused the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) of smuggling missile ingredients to North Korea using a passenger-cargo ship that plies between Japan and North Korea.

''I worked for nine years as an master in the guidance system for the North Korean missile industry and I can count you definitely that across 90% of these parts be derived from Japan,'' the man said in a congressional testimony in subordination to the assumed name Lee Bok Koo

''The way they bring this in is through...the North Korean association inside Japan and they bring it by way of ship every three months'' leeward told the Financial Management, the governmental estimate and International Security Subcommittee of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.

lee-side said the ship, the Man Gyong Bong-92 which sails between North Korea's Wonsan and Japan's Niigata ports, has been used to transport missile components

to leeward who fled to China in 1997 had his face hidden by dint of a black veil and made the testimony from behind screens

A senior Chongryon official told Kyodo moderns in Tokyo on Wednesday that the association has been in no degree involved in such missile parts shipments.

Andre Hollis, factor assistant secretary of defense for reckoner narcotics, told the subcommittee that put drugs into trafficking by North Korea is a potential threat to U national security.

The United States is ready to help countries in Northeast Asia fight against put drugs into trafficking, Hollis said.

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