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Israel Suspends Talks
With North Korea

Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's
decision to suspend diplo-
matic contacts with North
Korea has put an end to a
high- level governmental
debate on how to deal with
the Communist country's
sale of Scud-C missiles to
Iran and Syria.
The decision, made by top
Cabinet officials here, has
also removed a potential
irritant in U.S.-Israeli rela-
tions.
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin had expressed doubts
for some time that Israel
could convince the North
Koreans to stop the sale of
the missiles, which would
have the capability of strik-
ing targets in Israel.
But Mr. Rabin did not op-
pose diplomatic contacts
between the Foreign Min-
istry and North Korean dip-
lomats in an effort to per-
suade them to change their
policy.
Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres had been more
sanguine about the possible
benefits of talks with the
North Koreans, but he, too,
seemed to have lost hope.
The Foreign Ministry
issued a statement that the
decision to suspend contacts
with North Korea had been
made "to allow the United
States to stop the supply of
ballistic missiles from North
Korean to Iran and Syria.”
The ministry said an
agreement to this effect had
been reached as a result of
consultations between
Washington and Jerusalem.
During a meeting last
week in Washington with
Israeli Deputy Foreign Min-
ister Yossi Beilin, Samuel
(Sandy) Berger, the White
House deputy national
security adviser, reportedly
asked that Israel refrain
from making any further
contacts with the North
Koreans.
In Washington, State
Department spokesman
Mike McCurry said that for
the last month, "senior U.S.
officials have told Israeli of-
ficials that the United States
is concerned about contacts
between Israel and North
Korea, especially at a time
in which the entire North
American community has
very serious, unresolved
concerns regarding North
Korea's nuclear program."
U.S. officials had also ex-
pressed concern over the
issue to American Jewish

organizational leaders, but
the Jewish community had
not taken a formal position
on the Israeli contacts with
North Korea.
"The Jewish community
understands the U.S. sen-
sitivity," Malcolm Hoenlein,
executive vice chairman of
the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish
Organizations, said.
But he added, "We hope
the United States will step
up its efforts in view of the
requests it's made of Israel."
"We are not satisfied that
enough is being done to con-
tain and deal with the (mis-
sile) exports," he said. "It is
going to take an interna-
tional effort to cut off these
supplies. The Europeans
have to be more forceful."
Israel, which does not have
formal ties with North
Korea, began to establish
contacts this year in hopes of
stopping the North Koreans
from selling arms to Iran
and Syria.
Israeli officials and North
Korean officials had a
meeting in Beijing last week
in which the North Koreans
reportedly agreed to con-
tinue talking about stopping

Israel, which does
not have formal
ties with North
Korea, began to
establish contacts
this year in hopes
of stopping the
arms flow to Iran
and Syria.

the transfer of missiles to
other countries, particularly
Iran.
They also reportedly said
they wanted to continue con-
tacts with Israel, although
they balked at the idea of es-
tablishing diplomatic rela-
tions.
Appearing before the
Knesset Foreign Affairs and
Defense Committee, Mr.
Peres said Israel had come to
the conclusion that the
United States had a better
chance than Israel of convin-
cing the North Koreans not
to supply Iran and Syria
with missiles.
Mr. Peres suggested that
one way of persuading North
Korea to change its mind
was for the United States to