It is official. There is new evidence of North Korean complicity in Syria’s chemical weapons production. This is coming amid fresh reports of the use of banned substances against civilians, including in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta where a child died in a suspected chlorine gas attack just last week.
Technically, Syria was not obliged to give up its chlorine, a substance that also has non-military uses, when it signed the Chemical Weapons Convention in 2013. However, it remains illegal under international law to use chlorine on the battlefield or against civilians.
There were reports that a delegation of North Korean missile technicians also visited Syria in August 2016 and transferred “special resistance valves and thermometers known for use in chemical weapons”.
An unidentified UN member country disclosed to investigators that North Korean missile technicians had worked at three Syrian chemical weapons sites long after the 2013 deal to give up its chemical stockpiles and destroy its facilities.
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