Israel will not tolerate the transfer of non-conventional weapons capabilities from North Korea to Syria’s new government, a senior Israeli official told NK News, while noting there is currently no indication such cooperation is underway.

“We will do whatever needs to be done, kinetically and non-kinetically … to make sure that [North Korea] is not continuously playing a role in that,” Aviv Ezra, deputy director general for Asia and the Pacific at Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in an interview at the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit.

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