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Iran has since regularly purchased arms from North Korea to equip a number of its non-state partners, including Hezbollah and various Iraqi government aligned militias. — location: 7075 ^ref-65062

Defence ties between the southern Lebanese militia and political party Hezbollah and the DPRK were first established in the early 1980s, and much of Hezbollah’s central leadership, including current Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, Security and Intelligence chief Ibrahim Akil and head of counter-espionage operations Mustapha Badreddine, were trained in Korea. The militia’s intelligence sharing, command structures and security apparatus today all closely reflect this influence. — location: 7238 ^ref-26700

Kubota, Yoko, ‘Israel Says Seized North Korean Arms Were for Hamas, Hezbollah,’ — location: 7507 ^ref-26188

the primary impact of sanctions appears not to have been the undercutting of North Korean living standards, but rather the undercutting of its significant potential to use exports to stimulate growth— — location: 15384 ^ref-21358

even after their relaxation following major concessions by Tehran on its nuclear program, U.S. sanctions were partially re-imposed under different pretexts within 24 hours50— — location: 15472 ^ref-42183

nuclear program was not the cause for Iran’s targeting, but rather its existence as a non-Westphilian state which was not in compliance with the designs of the Western-led order. — location: 15475 ^ref-919

In North Korea the development of a nuclear deterrent has been directly tied to economic development under the Byungjin policy—which prioritises the two programs in parallel, implicitly at the expense of conventional military spending. — location: 15503 ^ref-29091

The DPRK’s ability to increasingly focus on improving its civilian economy from the early 2010s has thus directly resulted from the country’s development of a nuclear deterrent. — location: 15506 ^ref-49524

Hispanic American man, Adolfo Martinez, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison in the state of Ohio in December 2019 for tearing down an LGBT flag outside a church and destroying it. Unlike Warmbier, he was not a foreign citizen and did not enter a restricted area to access the flag. — location: 16085 ^ref-32520