The overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may have marked a major blow to the Iran-aligned Axis ... to Iran, Iraq and North Korea, later expanded to include Cuba, Libya and Syria by ...

Choosing a country from the "Axis of Evil" might not sound ... Bush who designated Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as three evil nations in his State of the Union Speech in 2002.

Take, for instance, the 2007 Israeli raid that destroyed Syria ... Iraq and Iran in what he described as “an axis of evil.” Few recall that North Korea was actually the first of the three ...

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In 1980, before it was completed, Iran launched an attack ... By 2007, North Korea had helped Syria build its own nuclear reactor. As it had in Iraq, Israel destroyed Syria’s reactor with ...

North Korean state media didn’t immediately comment on South Korea establishing ties with Syria. South Korea also established diplomatic relations with Cuba last year, which the Seoul government ...