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North Korea has a new anti-ship missile with a range of 130 km that poses a big threat to South Korea's elderly patrol corvettes. A recent propaganda film shown on North Korean state TV shows the missile is similar to the U.S.' Harpoon missile, a military source here said Sunday. "It's probably either the Russian-developed Kh-35 Uran or a copy." The missile was shown among the country's closely guarded submarines, which were also featured for the first time. The Kh-35 was developed in Russia in the mid-90s and has been exported to Burma, India and Vietnam. It is hard to...

No president can anticipate all of the problems that will arise on his "watch," but surely even his worst enemies will admit that George W. Bush has been handed more than his fair share of exploding cigars. To be sure, observers have long foreseen that a time would come when an alarming number of medium-sized nations would acquire the ability to construct nuclear weapons and the technology to inflict them on other countries. Hence the decades-long effort to impose restrictions on such efforts, notably through the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. But the treaty has been only marginally successful, and a series...