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S8 Ep640: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY: Bruce Bechtol explains how North Korean engineers, led by Mong Lo, built underground tunnels at Natanz and Isfahan to help Iran conceal its growing nuclear program and its strategic missile arsenal. (1)

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY: Bruce Bechtol explains how North Korean engineers, led by Mong Lo, built underground tunnels at Natanz and Isfahan to help Iran conceal its growing nuclear program and its strategic missile arsenal. (1)

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0:00.0

This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague Bruce Bechtel, author of Rogue Allies,

0:06.6

about the North Korean development of weapon systems and others, aspects of war fighting for Iran.

0:15.2

This inquiry goes to the tunnels that we know Iran is using to conceal its arsenal of missiles and also its nuclear

0:24.6

weapons program and FISA material who built them. Bruce has the answer down to the location

0:32.2

of the master builder. Bruce Bechtel, much more tonight about the weapon systems and the nukes that North

0:42.0

Korea has. I'm asking the question, are the nukes for sale? Bruce Bechtel, more tonight.

0:50.3

You betcha. You can tell if you look at those underground facilities, North Korea has probably built or assisted in the building of almost all of the Iranian underground facilities, including the most important ones that we all know about, which is at Isfahan and the Times.

1:09.6

They built those.

1:10.4

We even know the name of the North Korean

1:14.1

head engineer who headed up that team in 2006 that helped the Iranians build those muscles.

1:20.8

Tunnels. His name was Mion Lodoh. And he came from, and he worked for, you bet, office number 39 in

1:28.7

North Korea.

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