30 residents of northern Israel affected during the second Lebanon war in summer 2006, filed in the District Court of Washington's lawsuit against the government of North Korea, reported The Jerusalem Post.

The lawsuit for $ 100 million alleging that the DPRK leadership has helped militants Hezbollah . According to the plaintiffs, Pyongyang taught the senior military leadership of the movement and created a network of bunkers for the storage of missiles, the type of Katyusha, which were then fired on the northern regions of Israel.

As the publication, a lawsuit filed in the United States, because the plaintiffs have also American citizenship. In his statement, they refer to a memorandum of the U.S. Congress on 8 May 2008, which was then transferred to the State Department. It says that one of the designs created by North Korea to Hezbollah, a 25-kilometer underground tunnel which was used for the movement of fighters.

In addition, the memorandum states that the underground infrastructure of Hezbollah has helped the movement in war with Israel.

This claim victims of the shelling Hezbollah was the first filed against North Korea.

so-called Second Lebanon War started On 12 July 2006, with the shelling of Israeli border militia Hezbollah operating in Lebanon. Since then, Israel has imposed on Lebanon army to destroy the infrastructure of motion and its fighters. Those, in turn, continued rocket attacks on Israeli towns. The fighting ended on August 14, after the adoption of UN Security Council resolutions.

During times of armed conflict killed 43 Israeli civilians, more than 4 thousand were injured. He was killed 121 Israeli soldiers and about 400 were injured.