Nuclear Weapons are Haram - But Iranian scientists may attend N. Korea nuclear test.

Nuclear Weapons are Haram - But Iranian scientists may attend N. Korea nuclear test.(JPost).North Korea will soon carry out a nuclear experiment, and Iranian scientists could be present at the explosion site, sources who are familiar with the issue told The Jerusalem Post Monday. Iranian officials from the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group observed a failed North Korean rocket launch on April 13, according to a report by the South Korean Yonhap news agency. Although Seoul has neither confirmed nor denied the report, it believes that a delegation of a dozen Iranian scientists may have been technically involved in North Korea's failed long-range rocket launch, which North Korea said was a satellite launch. Now, the Islamic Republic may be planning a presence at North Korea's upcoming third nuclear test as well. South Korea government sources said on Sunday that North Korea appears to have completed preparations for the test, and would need only to push a button to detonate an atomic bomb. The test could come as soon as early to middle May. North Korea has tested two atomic bombs in recent years, once in 2006 and again in 2009 - both times after it carried out failed missile tests. The North's nuclear weapons program is mainly based on plutonium, while Iran is mostly relying on uranium in its efforts to build a bomb. Yet some analysts believe that Tehran may be pursuing a parallel secret plutonium nuclear program. 
Similarly, North Korea is also known to have enriched uranium through spinning centrifuges.Iran's own missile program is based on North Korean missile engines. The suspected Iranian presence and involvement comes as tensions between the totalitarian North Korea and Seoul have soared. Pyongyang has issued repeated threats this month to carry out "special action" against South Korea and "to annihilate reckless challenges from rebellious elements." The messages threatened to "raze all sources of provocation to the ground with unprecedented special means and our own methods" within three to four minutes. "Do they still not understand our determination to retaliate?" an official North Korean website said this week, adding, "revolutionary forces never utter empty words."Read the full story here.