North Korea tried to sell rocket bomb detonation devices to Iran but failed, Asahi Shimbun of Japan reported Thursday, quoting a information from the United Nations.
A group monitoring situations in North Korea at the U.N. filed the report in 2008, the article said.
The report said North Korea shipped a container with two of the detonators from Nampo Port and moved the goods at Dalian in China.
The containers were heading for Bandar ‘Abbs, a southern port in Iran when authorities of a third country received information about the shipment and found the detonators.
They immediately confiscated the devices and sent the results of their investigations to the U.N.
The report indicated that North Korea ran a number of operations in Taiwan which dealt with technologies involving computer control and even tried to obtain missile technologies from Ukraine.