North Korea provided Iran a dangerous computer program

As it became known S? Ddeutsche Zeitung from sources in Western intelligence, North Korea early this year, the Ministry of Defense has provided a computer program of Iran, with which the Islamic Republic will master the "important know-how to build nuclear weapons."

We are talking about software for simulating neutron fluxes called Monte Carlo N-Particle Extended, abbreviated MCNPX 2.6.0. It can be used in civilian nuclear projects and the development of warheads. A program has been in the U.S. nuclear laboratory at Los Alamos, is used in a number of western universities and research institutes. It is known that there are severe restrictions on its exports, and how she came to North Korea is unknown, reports InoPressa.

It is assumed that the transaction took place within the framework of an extensive program of cooperation that has already cost Iran more than $ 100 million and, in the unanimous opinion of experts, transfer of software is not restricted. "North Korea has many years of selling military technology, especially missiles, for hard currency to countries like Iran - the newspaper writes. - According to the CIA, the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Service, the country also helped Syria build a secret atomic to the editor to produce plutonium, which 2007 bombed the Israeli Air Force. "

MCNPX 2.6.0 allows you to calculate whether it is possible in this system self-sustaining chain reaction. Consequently, with the help of Iran can "with high probability determine whether an atomic bomb would explode if operation of all mechanical components." According to reports, dozens of North Korean experts in mid-February, visited Iran, where for three months at a secret facility trained Iranians use the program. They also presented them with a database with its own work to ensure the accuracy of the calculations. Part of the profits derived from the transaction allegedly took scientists to Pyongyang in cash.

"European intelligence agencies, like the U.S., based on the fact that at present Iran has no active program to develop nuclear weapons. Among the experts and intelligence personnel prevailing view that the Iranian leadership has not taken appropriate political decision, within the regime, obviously, there are different views on this issue. However, the Government at least is trying to create all sorts of conditions so that in case of emergency, could in the short term to create a nuclear weapon "- the article says.

According to Olli Heinonen, a former IAEA inspector, is now dealing with the problem of nuclear proliferation at Harvard, co-operation with North Korea to Iran will be useful, despiteabout what North Korea relies on plutonium, and Iran is working with uranium. In addition to cooperation in the nuclear field, Iran and North Korea are working closely to create ballistic missiles, "With them it would be logical to talk about what to put at the head of the missile, and interact in this respect too," - says Heinonen. For him "it is clear that any Iranian Manhattan Project is not", but it is also clear that the Iranians "want to improve their know-how", so cooperation with North Korea for their "absolutely sensible" to whatever degree was not in their nuclear program.