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#NORTH KOREA; Digging tunnels for Hezbollah. Bruce Bechtol, author, "NORTH KOREA MILITARY PROLIFERATION, in the Middle East and Africa.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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#NORTH KOREA; Digging tunnels for Hezbollah. Bruce Bechtol, author, "NORTH KOREA MILITARY PROLIFERATION, in the Middle East and Africa.

1951 Fifth Marines Korea War 

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0:00.0

This is a

0:04.0

This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelor with my colleague and friend Gordon Chang at

0:08.8

Gordon Chiang since the beginning of the Hamas crisis and now the Hezbollah crisis, there's always

0:16.6

talk towards the end of an article about tunnels, tunnels in Gaza, tunnels in Hezbollah in Lebanon, tunnels under the border in northern Israel, tunnels

0:27.6

under the border into Sinai.

0:31.1

What about those tunnels?

0:32.3

Who digs them? How much are they paid to dig them? Where are they?

0:37.0

And are there other tunnels in the world that we need to know about?

0:41.0

Gordon and I most welcome our colleague Bruce Bechtel.

0:46.2

He is importantly the author of North Korean military proliferation in the Middle East and

0:51.0

Africa, enabling violence and instability.

0:55.1

He was also a professor at Angelo State University and State of Texas and a long time

1:01.4

North Korea watcher. Bruce a very good evening to you tunneling. As I recall

1:06.9

you've taught me over the years North Korea's a specialist in tunneling and they make

1:11.9

a lot of money. What do we know about North

1:14.7

Korea and Hezbollah tunnels? Good evening to you Bruce. Good evening John and

1:19.8

also good evening Gordon. Well they are the best in the world at this and that all

1:24.0

started back in the Korean War when they were bombed to into the next century

1:29.6

basically by the US Air Force Navy Navy, and Marine Corps.

1:33.4

And they've just gotten better at it

1:35.0

and more technical at it, as most people

1:37.6

who look at this would tell you.

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