Hindustani78
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I dont believe Pakistan's strategic policy makers are even thinking about an ICBM yet making one with or without Chinese help. Having said that Pakistan does need an ICBM which could also benefit our SLV program. Moreover Pakistan is the only country to be threaten by another to be bombed back to stone age not too long ago, it would be wise for our policy makers to wake up and do something for a change before its too late.
Pakistan should use this opportunity as the perfect means to further enhance our missile program now that China seems more willing in supporting than ever before.
U.S. sanctions against Pakistani, Chinese,and North Korean entities for missile transfers to Pakistan,
In late 1995, Marshal Ch’oe Gwang, the former Vice Chairman of North Korea’s National Defense Commission, visited Pakistan and brokered the missile deal.
Details of Pakistan and North Korea’s missile cooperation efforts surfaced in open-source literature through-out the 1990s. One such incident came to light in 1996 when Taiwanese officials seized 15 metric tons of ammonium perchlorate on a freighter bound from North Korea to Pakistan’s Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Committee.
Ammonium perchlorate is an oxidizing agent used in most modern solid-propellant formulas. In 1997,Kang T’ae Yun, a North Korean diplomat based in Pakistan, who also worked for the Ch’anggwang Credit Bank and/or the Ch’anggwang Trading Company, arranged for the supply of maraging steel from the All-Russian Institute of Light Alloys in Moscow to both North Korea and Pakistan. Maraging steel has applications in rocket motor casings as well as high-speed centrifuges used in the gas centrifuge uranium enrichment process.
In 1999, Indian customs officials, acting on an intelligence tip-off, seized the North Korean ship Ku Wol San at the port of Kandla in Gujarat. Although the ship’s manifest listed water purification equipment, a search revealed that it was carrying missile components and metal casings to Pakistan. Indian officials also discovered 22 technical manuals for Scud-type ballistic missiles.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were allegations that Pakistan was helping Iran with uranium enrichment
technology.