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The Pyongyang-Tehran Axis
(Wall Street Journal) Richard Goldberg and Mark Dubowitz - For more than 30 years, Iran and North Korea have exchanged nuclear expertise, cooperated widely on missile technologies, and run similar playbooks against Western negotiators. There is concern that Tehran is using Pyongyang for work no longer permitted under the 2015 nuclear deal while perfecting North Korean-derived missile delivery systems back home. For years Iran watched Pyongyang play successive U.S. administrations to advance its nuclear and missile programs. The Kim regime demonstrated how a relatively weak country could persuade the U.S. to yield on major concessions along a pathway to nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. Mr. Goldberg is a senior adviser and Mr. Dubowitz chief executive at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.