Axis of Evil now official

[Solmyr]

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=283453

Iran, North Korea unite against 'common enemies'
By REUTERS
09/01/2012 18:47
'ILNA' reports countries have signed cooperation agreement in science, technology at NAM summit meeting in Tehran.

DUBAI - Iran and North Korea have signed an agreement to cooperate in science and technology, Iranian media reported on Saturday, and Iran's supreme leader declared that the two countries had "common enemies."

The two countries will cooperate in research, student exchanges and joint laboratories, and in the fields of information technology, engineering, biotechnology, renewable energy, the environment, sustainable development of agriculture and food technology, the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) reported.
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ILNA said the agreement was signed by Iran's Minister for Science, Research, and Technology Farhad Daneshjoo and North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun.

North Korea has had close ties with Iran. Leaked US diplomatic cables from 2010 showed that US officials believe Iran has acquired ballistic missile parts from North Korea.

Pyongyang's Communist government and Iran's Islamic republic share little in the way of ideology, but both were named as part of an "axis of evil" by former US President George W. Bush in his 2002 State of the Union speech.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also met with North Korea's Kim Yong-nam, seen as a figurehead head of state, who was in Tehran for the Non-Aligned Movement summit held this week.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran and North Korea have common enemies, because the arrogant powers do not accept independent states," Khamenei was quoted as saying by ILNA on Saturday.

There had been rumors that North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un would attend the summit of developing countries. The Non-Aligned Movement is one of the few multilateral forums in which the North takes part.

Iran's first vice-president, Mohammad Reza Rahimi, also called on Saturday for greater economic ties between his country and North Korea, Iranian state television reported.

Was Bush: clairvoyant?

[The Brain]

Joint laboratories. 

[citizen k]

I'm proud to be a citizen of the Arrogant Powers.   

[Valmy]

Iran's first vice-president, Mohammad Reza Rahimi, also called on Saturday for greater economic ties between his country and North Korea, Iranian state television reported

The vast economic production of North Korea will soon be at their disposal!

[Eddie Teach]

Iran's first vice-president, Mohammad Reza Rahimi, also called on Saturday for greater economic ties between his country and North Korea, Iranian state television reported

The vast economic production of North Korea will soon be at their disposal!

It's really all about getting their hands on Korean nukes.

[Josquius]

Pyongyang's Communist government

Reporting fail

[Darth Wagtaros]

I think we need a Crusade.

[CountDeMoney]

Iran and North Korea have signed an agreement to cooperate in science and technology,

Good, they can have fun trading compromised thumb drives back and forth.

[Ed Anger]

[Neil]

Pyongyang's Communist government

Reporting fail

Huh?

[Razgovory]

Pyongyang's Communist government

Reporting fail

Huh?

I think they recently removed references to Marx and stuff from their constitution and such.  Not that it matters.  It's still a Stalinist state.

[Neil]

Pyongyang's Communist government

Reporting fail

Huh?

I think they recently removed references to Marx and stuff from their constitution and such.  Not that it matters.  It's still a Stalinist state.

Oh, so it's actually an ideology fail by Jos.

[KRonn]

I thought they were already allies and cooperating, along with other notable nations like Chavez' messed up Venezuela.

[Josquius]

I think they recently removed references to Marx and stuff from their constitution and such.  Not that it matters.  It's still a Stalinist state.

Only as far as stalinist can be taken to mean fascist in all but name psychotic dictatorship (which Stalin's Russia pretty much was...but anyway).
North Korea is completely non-communist even in the cold war sense of the word...but calling it such helps to sell papers and get people riled up about it being scarier than it is.

[Admiral Yi]

Only as far as stalinist can be taken to mean fascist in all but name psychotic dictatorship (which Stalin's Russia pretty much was...but anyway).
North Korea is completely non-communist even in the cold war sense of the word...but calling it such helps to sell papers and get people riled up about it being scarier than it is.

  How scary is it in reality Squeeze?  This is a country that launched an invasion resulting in millions of deaths, never signed a peace treaty, kidnaps foreigners to teach spies their language, blew up the entire South Korean cabinet, chopped up some soldiers in the demilitarized zone with axes, has sunk a few South Korean ships, shelled a South Korean island, builds and tests nuclear warheads and missiles, and threatens to use them.

So I'd really love to know Squeeze how scared we should be of North Korea.  Like Scotland, or closer to Wales?