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   missiles. Libya in turn purchased 8 more from North Korea.   
      
   The remaining 2 after using 6 of them were reversed engineered and   
   turned into improved 1st generation Shahab-1 :) They were short range   
   and very inaccurate, good only to make it somewhere to the city where   
   the target was :) Hehe :) But they had a mighty one ton payloads!.. They   
   did deliver effective messages to Saddam. Hitting Iran with missiles   
   completely stopped.   
      
   But despite their shortcomings, they were still a bit better than what   
   Libya gave Iran. I believe they traveled about 100 km farther. So   
   instead of taking Scuds to the border right under Iraqi's noses to fire   
   them, Shahab-1 could be fired from hidden places inside a city or   
   village or something in safer places. So Shahab-1 was indeed a good   
   improvement.   
      
   Anyway, I do not remember Korea giving Iran Scuds despite the fact that   
   the Leader (he was president back then) traveled to Korea in person to   
   ask for them. And I remember Hafez Assad only offered training on their   
   usages but could not give a few to Iran, stating that Soviets didn't   
   allow it. Syrians had the original scuds from Russia, which weren't   
   called Scuds. Russian originals were called R-11. And Russians called   
   Iranian Shahab-1 slight variation as R-17 Elbrus (the Elbrus pointing to   
   Iran's Alborz stretch of mountains).   
      
   And NATO of course had their own jargon for each of these missiles.   
      
   So.. . If Iran is attacked again in this day and age, North Korea might   
   do more than what they did 40 years back. Therefore I think what they   
   said today is significant.   
      
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