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North Korea’s Rogue Strategic Pipeline Arming Iran's War Effort: Exclusive Interview
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, center right, and his daughter, center left, attend a live-fire test of multiple rocket launch systems, at an undisclosed place in North Korea Saturday, March 14, 2026 (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
Military.com | By
Robert Billard
Published March 25, 2026 at 3:00am ET
While Iranian missiles, and their proxies,
continue to attack U.S. troops and partners in the Arabian Gulf, one fact has disappeared from the coverage: North Korea supplies the weapons. The rockets that Hamas fired on October 7, 2023, the ballistic missiles Tehran launches at American positions today, and the tunnel networks that still threaten Israeli forces all trace back to Pyongyang. Few analysts have called it out. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. has.
Bechtol, author of the new book Rogue Allies: The Strategic Partnership Between Iran and North Korea (which he co-authored with Anthony N. Celso), has spent years documenting the flow. In a recent
Korea Regional Review analysis, he wrote that after reviewing reporting from the United States, Europe and East Asia, he found “zero” mentions of North Korea’s role. “The evidence is there,” he told Military.com.