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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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From: longnshort6/22/2005 11:56:08 AM
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With compliments to Clinton's gifts:

China advances missile program
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
June 22, 2005

China has successfully flight-tested a submarine-launched missile that U.S. officials say marks a major advance in Beijing's long-range nuclear program.
"This is a significant milestone in their effort to develop strategic weapons," said a U.S. official familiar with reports of the test.
U.S. intelligence agencies monitored the flight test of a JL-2 missile about 10 days ago, officials said.
The missile was launched from a Chinese submarine near the port of Qingdao and was tracked to a desert impact point in western China several thousand miles away, the officials said.
The Air Force's National Air Intelligence Center reported that the JL-2 "will, for the first time, allow Chinese [missile submarines] to target portions of the United States from operating areas located near the Chinese coast."
The JL-2 is estimated to have a range of up to 6,000 miles, enough to hit targets in the United States.
A defense official said the missile test was a major step forward in China's strategic nuclear missile program and shows an improved capability to produce and launch submarine-launched missiles. "It was a successful test," this official said.
The JL-2 is a submarine version of the DF-31 land-based missile.
A flight test of the JL-2 last year failed, U.S. intelligence officials said.
In December, however, China launched the first of a new class of ballistic missile submarines known as the Type 094.
It was not known whether the JL-2 missile was launched from the new submarine or from another submarine modified for missile launch tests.
China previously has used a modified Russian-design submarine for missile tests.

washtimes.com
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