Bhutto Says She Rejected Pakistan WMD Swap with N.K.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said she rejected suggestions to swap her country’s nuclear technology for North Korean long-range missile parts, the Associated Press reported yesterday (see GSN, April 15).

The proposal came in 1988 from Pakistani military officials during Bhutto’s first term in office. Bhutto said she instead chose to pay North Korea for the missile components, according to the Asahi newspaper (Associated Press/Yahoo!News, July 18).

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