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Cuba has send Soviet weapons to North Korea including anti-aircraft batteries and missiles 1707131.
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| Cuba has send Soviet weapons to North Korea including anti-aircraft batteries and missiles. | |||
Cuba
has said a North Korean cargo ship seized in Panama was loaded at one
of its ports with 240 tons of "obsolete defensive weaponry".
The Cuban foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday, July 17,
2013, that the Soviet-era weapons were being sent to North Korea for repair
and included two anti-aircraft batteries, nine disassembled rockets, and
two MiG-21 aircraft. |
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 North Korean cargo ship Chong Chon Gang carrying hidden 'missile equipment'. |
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| "The agreements Cuba has signed in these areas are based on our need to maintain our defensive capacity to protect national sovereignty," the statement said. The
Chong Chon Gang was detained on Tuesday after Panamanian authorities detected
what appeared to be ballistic missiles and other arms, Ricardo Martinelli,
the country's president, has said. North Korea carried out its third nuclear weapons test in February and then threatened to attack the US. The North has for decades had a programme to develop missiles of all types. |
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