RUMOR HAS IT

Hamas May Have Used North Korean Weapons in Israel: South Korea

South Korea also noted its neighbor to the north has a history of arms deals in the Middle East.

South Korea’s military said in a briefing Tuesday that North Korea may have provided a number of the weapons Hamas used in its brutal attack on Israel last week, including F-7 rocket-propelled grenades and 122mm artillery shells. A senior official from Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff also told UPI that North Korea may be helping the militants in Gaza with combat strategy—with the two forces using a similar “asymmetric attack pattern.” Pyongyang claimed the idea was a “groundless and false rumor” on its state-managed Korean Central News Agency. According to The Wall Street Journal, South Korea’s Tuesday report used videos of the Hamas attacks as evidence and claimed that its northern neighbor had a history of arms deals in the Middle East. North Korea, for its part, has publicly backed Hamas and called Israel’s retaliation “ceaseless criminal actions.”