Myanmar Denies Seeking North Korean Nuclear Weapons Technology

Myanmar today rejected a suggestion made this week by a senior aide to U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) that it was seeking nuclear weapons technology from North Korea (see GSN, Nov. 18, 2003).

At a Heritage Foundation event Monday, Lugar aide Keith Luse said “special attention” was needed to what he described as a growing relationship between Myanmar and North Korea. Luse also suggested that North Korea might be providing nuclear weapons technology to Myanmar.

Yangon today, though, denied seeking nuclear weapons, saying in a statement that it “does not require nor want to develop WMD when the country simply needs all her strength and resources pursuing a peaceful, stable … transition to a multiparty democracy” (Agence France-Presse, Feb. 11).

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