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What do American citizens and security forces feel about their ally Pakistan helping out North Korea in their nuclear weapons technology plans?

• It was in the news that Pakistan had helped North Korea in their nuclear weapons programme by helping them with top Pak nuclear scientists. Pakistan receives Amerincan state aid. What do American citizens and its members of security forces think about Pakistan helping North Korea?

• Answer:

  I'm pretty ambivalent at this point, primarily because the events the question refers to are about two decades old.[1] There isn't really anything we can do about it now, so why should it impact current strategic needs? In the '90s, both countries faced diametric problems: Pakistan had a well-developed nuclear program, but lacked a robust set of delivery systems (i.e. missiles). North Korea had considerably more expertise developing ballistic missiles (a by-product of being having a relatively good relationship with the Soviet Union), but needed help to further develop its nuclear program and obtaining more modern equipment. And, as the world is often wont to do, these two sides found each other and provided the requisite help in their respective areas of expertise. In the early '90s, Pakistan provided North Korea with some technical help and civilian nuclear equipment in return for some of the later country's No-Dong missiles.[2] Is it annoying that any country helped put North Korea in the position they are in now? Sure, but there's no use getting riled up about something that happened in the early 90s, mostly by a bunch of people who are either out of power or dead at this point, at a time when the current US-Pakistan strategic relationship didn't exist and relations between the two countries were strained. [1] I would qualify this, though, by going of on a slight tangent and saying that this is a pretty good reason why I'm not exactly ecstatic about Pakistan having a nuclear program in the first place. Or about needing them as a strategic partner. [2] Additionally, one of Pakistan's leading nuclear scientists, A.Q. Khan, help supply North Korea with more a more robust and advanced set of nuclear technologies. Khan's involvement, however, can get slightly murky; depending on how you interpret publicly known history, you can logically arrive at the conclusion that Khan was acting in an official capacity or you can logically arrive at the conclusion that he was acting on his own behalf.