# Burma's Trying to Get Nuke Technology from N Korea

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**Created:** [June 13, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burmas-trying-to-get-nuke-technology-from-n-korea/542987 "2010-06-13T04:10:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burmas-trying-to-get-nuke-technology-from-n-korea/542987/1 "2010-06-13T04:10:25Z")

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Tales of Burma’s nuclear ambitions have increasingly poped up over the past couple of years. One of the latest ones is [Myanmar’s Nuclear Bombshell](http://atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/LF05Ae01.html).

It doesn’t seem to garner the attention that North Korea or Iran does, as [this story](http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=34485&t=INDIA+%96+MYANMAR+++A+silent+international+community+faces+Myanmar%92s+nuclear+ambitions) points out. Fortunately, they’re a long way from achieving this goal.

Burma and Thailand have been traditional archenemies for centuries, but the two get along okay now, so I wouldn’t say Thailand would necessarily be in immediate danger. But the Burmese junta is just as crazy as Kim Jong-il without being quite so publicly zany, so this is slipping below a lot of people’s radars. A nuclear-armed Burma would not be a good thing. It’s good that they’re still far from success in this, but it’s scary that they’re even trying.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burmas-trying-to-get-nuke-technology-from-n-korea/542987/2 "2010-06-18T02:31:30Z")

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The Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses speculates on a [North Korea/China/Burma axis](http://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/AChinaNorthKoreaMyanmarAxisinthemaking_rpanda_170610). ☹

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burmas-trying-to-get-nuke-technology-from-n-korea/542987/3 "2010-06-26T02:01:41Z")

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And more [North Korean rockets have been set up in Burma](http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18799). In the northern, eastern and central parts of the country. What do they ened these for? 😕