WikiLeaks: Iran 'obtains North Korea missiles.

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   Iran has obtained ballistic missiles from North Korea that could be used to strike Western Europe, the leaked files suggest. Secret American intelligence assessments conclude that Iran has obtained a stock of 19 advanced missiles, based on a Russian design. The missiles could give Iran the capacity to strike at capitals in Western Europe as close as Berlin, or Moscow. They could also use the missile technology to develop even more powerful inter-continental ballistic missiles, the cable warns. While Iran is believed to be developing nuclear weapons, intelligence experts do not believe the country has yet developed a warhead that could be fitted to a missile. However there has been speculation that North Korea may have sold Iran components for missiles based on a Russian design called the R-27, once used by Soviet submarines to carry nuclear warheads. In fact, a cable dated February 24 this year, makes clear that US intelligence believe the North Korea have shipped complete versions of their more powerful BM-25, based on the Russian design.

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