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North Korea and the United States face a face-on-the-counter nuclear test US allegations against Pyongyang that North Korea is picketing for war. Recently, North Korea has successfully tested hydrogen bombs, claiming the country has successfully tested hydrogen bombs. Since then the situation is more murky. Meanwhile, the United States is trying to create world opinion by imposing sanctions on North Korea.
In this situation, the issue of North Korea-Pakistan relations has again been discussed. Western countries have been complaining that there is a cooperative relationship with Pakistan in the nuclear field for many days. Although these allegations have been denied by both countries, there has been debate over their relationship at different times.
Pakistan's newspaper Dawn reported that Pakistan had established diplomatic relations with North Korea in 1971. Since then, both countries have maintained good relations with respect to mutual interests. The West has kept a close watch on this matter. One year after the independence of Pakistan, two Koreans separated in 1948. Then North Korea formally formed the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) government. But the relations between the two countries remained unchanged until the 1970s. In 1971, a North Korean delegation went to Pakistan on a 10-day tour. Then both countries signed an exchange trade agreement. Since then relations between the two countries have gained new dimensions.
On 18 September 1971, two deals were signed between the two countries. One for arms supply in Pakistan and another to establish mutual diplomatic relations. The country next year on November 9 strengthened diplomatic relations. During the visit of Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to North Korea in May 1976, the agreement between the two countries was signed, under which North Korea started supplying arms to Pakistan. The relationship between them is deeper. In 1993, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto went to North Korea. Then signed an agreement to purchase long-range missiles from North Korea, exchange nuclear technology and encourage North Korean students to study in the universities of Pakistan. Then North Korea claimed that they helped in Pakistan's missile program. And Islamabad said, they help Pyongyang to build nuclear missiles.
Currently there are consulate offices in a North Korean embassy and other cities in Islamabad, Pakistan. And there are also Pakistan Embassy in Pyongyang. North Korea and Pakistan have always been suspicious of this bilateral relationship with strong western countries. Their complaint, Pakistan provided nuclear technology to North Korea. As a result, the country has been able to create nuclear bombs. But Pakistan has denied the allegations.
In a telephone interview recently given to BBC Urdu, Pakistan's chief nuclear scientist Abdul Kadir Khan said North Korea's nuclear technology is much better and better than Pakistan. He also denied any assistance from Pyongyang to Islamabad. He said North Korea was self-sufficient in nuclear cases long before. Because, there was a team of their high qualified scientists.
A day after North Korea successfully tested hydrogen bombing, Pakistan's nuclear program's father Qadir Khan commented on this. He told the BBC that he has gone to North Korea twice during the missile program and he has seen that he has many advanced technologies compared to Pakistan. Their scientists are very capable and most of them have studied in Russia.
Although acknowledging the supply of nuclear technology and skilled manpower to North Korea, Libya and Iran in February 2004, he refused to comment on the role of Pakistan in North Korea's nuclear program. He said, 'It is unqualified. They are much better than overall technical aspects. We are still sitting with the same old and popular technology. "But he said," North Korea and Pakistan's position in the missile program is fairly the same level.
Due to relations with North Korea, Islamabad's diplomatic crisis arises with Pakistan's western allies. In October 2002, some US officials complained that Pakistan served as the main supplier for North Korean secret nuclear program. But then the military dictator General Pervez Musharraf denied the accusations at a press conference. He said, 'The allegation is totally baseless. There is no such thing as support for North Korea in the nuclear field. Pakistan has said so many times and I personally have said that Pakistan will never encourage nuclear technology and we will remain firm on this commitment. "In November of the same year, Musharraf said that Pakistan has received technical assistance from making small missiles from Pyongyang. But his country can now create itself. However, the North Korean nuclear program denied any assistance. In an interview with Kyodo, the Japanese news agency, Musharraf confirmed that Kadir Khan provided North Korea's equipment and designs. But it did not help North Korea's nuclear capability.
In March 2003, US and North Korean Chong Wang Senyong Corporation imposed a ban on Khan Research Laboratories (Abdul Kadir Khan) for investment in the missile sector. In 2004, Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Kadir Khan apologized to the public that he had given assistance to North Korea to acquire nuclear technology. Later, however, he withdrew his statement and said that he gave the statement under pressure from Islamabad. Subsequently, Qadir Khan said in a report that North Korea intensified with Pakistani military officials to keep secret of nuclear support. But the officials deny the report as 'completely false'.
According to the Washington Post, atomic expert Kadir Khan published a copy of a senior Korean North Korean official's 1998 letter. It is mentioned that the former army chief was given $ 300 million and another military officer was given five million dollars and some jewelry. Both of them denied the authenticity of the letter. Dawn's news has said that in 2010, the last freight carrier was blocked by the sea route between Pakistan and North Korea. It is known that still a major Pakistani company continued shipping services with Pyongyang.
Recently North Korea and the United States have been facing confrontation. Both show their military power and are alerting each other for possible attacks. Islamabad condemned North Korea's sixth nuclear test saying, "Pakistan has always been saying that North Korea (DPRC) must abide by the decisions of the United Nations Security Council and all parties have to abstain from provocative action."
Pakistan's warning statement came at a time when the United States and North Korean partners Beijing and Moscow were trying to calm down the situation by asking Pyongyang to show restraint.
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