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The National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ), a Paris-based Iranian dissident group, reportedly said that a seven-person team of the North Korean Defense Ministry was in Iran in the last week of April in what was the third visit by North Korean officials in 2015, while a nine-person delegation from Pyongyang is expected to visit the country again in June, NCRI said, citing sources inside Iran.

“The delegates included nuclear experts, nuclear warhead experts and experts in various elements of ballistic missiles including guidance systems,” NCRI reportedly said, adding that the North Korean officials were taken secretly to the Imam Khomenei complex, a military site controlled by Iran’s defense ministry.

According to NCRI, the North Korean delegation met with officials at the Centre for Research and Design of New Aerospace Technology, a unit of nuclear weapons research and planning center, called the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND), which is under U.S. sanctions, Reuters reported.

NCRI, which had earlier exposed Iran’s uranium enrichment plant at Natanz,located 238 miles south of Tehran,reportedly said that the SPND unit focuses on research and manufacturing of interior parts of nuclear warheads.

“Tehran has shown no interest in giving up its drive to nuclear weapons. The weaponization program is continuing and they have not slowed down the process,” Reuters quoted Shahin Gobadi, a NCRI spokesman, as saying.

Iran and six world powers are expected to reach a final comprehensive settlement over a proposed nuclear deal by the end of June. However, several issues, including the monitoring and verifying of measures to ensure Iran does not secretly pursue a nuclear weapons program still remain to be addressed.

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