Iran signs pact with North Korea

 

Monday 03 September 2012

Iran and North Korea signed a scientific and technological co-operation in Tehran over the weekend, bringing closer two nations deeply at odds with the US. 

The agreement will include setting up joint scientific and technological laboratories but any technical accord is likely to raise suspicions in the West.

AP

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