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To: LindyBill who wrote (57849)	8/3/2004 6:46:23 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793597

N. Korean missiles can range USA So reports respected Jane's Defense. North Korea is deploying new land- and sea-based ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads and may have sufficient range to hit the United States, according to the authoritative Jane's Defense Weekly. ... "It would fundamentally alter the missile threat posed by the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and could finally provide its leadership with something that it has long sought to obtain -- the ability to directly threaten the continental U.S.," the weekly said. Apart from targeting the United States, South Korea or Japan, cash-strapped North Korea might seek to sell the technology to countries that have bought its missiles in the past, with Iran a prime candidate, the article added. Ian Kemp, news editor of Jane's Defense Weekly, said North Korea would only spend the money and effort on developing such missiles if it intended to fit them with nuclear warheads. I wrote last year of reports that debris of a North Korean three-stage rocket had been found in Alaska. North Korea continues to be a critical problem for the United States, Japan, China and South Korea. In fact, I am personally more worried about the situations in North Korea and Iran than I am about Iraq. But I don't hear aither John Kerry or President Bush telling me what they intend to do. Update: The commander of US Forces Korea, Gen. Leon J. LaPorte, said this week that North Korea is spending 35-40 percent of its GDP on its military, even though it is one of the poorest countries in the world and sufers chronic food shortages or famines. Asked what worries him, Gen. LaPorte said he is concerned about the continuing missile development by the North. "Their growing missile technology, their continued research and development and testing of missiles, that is a concern to all of us," he said. LaPorte said that North Korea is focusing on assymetric capability, "those that provide a military advantage over more advanced militaries, such as that of the United States. In North Korea, that includes nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and missiles to deliver them at both short and long distances." donaldsensing.com