NATO chief: More nations could follow Iran and North Korea

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has warned that more nations may follow the examples of Iran and North Korea and work to develop nuclear weapons. He said Monday that the possibility that Syria could be building a weapons-capable nuclear reactor showed that NATO must find an answer to ballistic missile threats. "The nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea threaten to set in motion a domino effect that will be difficult to contain," de Hoop Scheffer said in a speech at a missile defense conference at the Czech Foreign Ministry. "If there is a serious suspicion that in Syria there was a facility in the making, it only increases the arguments...for finding a collective answer to a ballistic missile defense threat," the NATO chief said.