Today, during his visit to Japan, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman renewed accusations that North Korea is supplying Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime with weapons of mass destruction.  Lieberman warned that allowing this cooperation between North Korea and Syria to continue would be tantamount to putting WMDs in the hands of Hezbollah and Hamas — both of which are terror groups who deny Israel’s right to exist.  Lieberman cited as evidence the December 2009 seizure in Bangkok of an illicit North Korean arms shipment to a previously undisclosed Middle Eastern country.  These accusations are by no means isolated. Previously, Israel has accused the NORKs of transferring nuclear technology to Syria, and carried out a 2007 strike obliterating an alleged Syrian nuclear facility built with North Korean assistance.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Kurt Campbell piled on yesterday with his own sharp comments directed at the Burmese military junta’s allegedly burgeoning cooperation with North Korea on developing nuclear and conventional weapons capabilities.  In his toughest comments on the matter to date, Campbell warned that the reclusive Burmese regime would face consequences — including “independent action” to enforce UN Security Council resolutions, if necessary — if they don’t stop playing footsie with Pyongyang’s merchants of apocalypse.