North Korea’s longstanding secret alliance with Hamas

YnetNews.com reports: “During the war against Hamas, the IDF captured large quantities of weapons made in North Korea, the world’s most isolated country, which were smuggled into the Gaza Strip.

A recent study by the U.S. think tank, the Stimson Center, unveils that the relationship between North Korea and the Palestinian terrorist organization, as well as other adversaries of Israel like Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Syria and the Houthis, has been established for many years, placing the North Korean dictatorship in a prominent position in the so-called ‘axis of resistance.’

The study points to Pyongyang’s close relationship with Palestinian terrorist groups, dating back to the 1970s and initiated by former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Arafat approached North Korean leader Kim Il-sung and received weapon shipments from him. Korean intelligence officers provided training to George Habash, the leader of the Marxist-Leninist terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and directed the terrorist attack of the communist group Japanese Red Army on the Lod Airport (today’s Ben Gurion Airport)…”

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