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"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama" -- Joe "The Prophet" Biden said last year on the campaign trail. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told "Fox News Sunday" last week that the United States is not prepared to respond to a North Korean missile launch. He says we can do nothing to stop North Korea from breaking international law in the next 10 days by firing a missile that is unlikely to be shot down by the U.S. or its allies. Last weekend, Japan announced it was sending naval ships equipped with missile interceptors to its...
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North Korea appears to have launched a rocket, despite international appeals not to go ahead. Officials from Japan, South Korea and the US confirmed lift-off at 0230 GMT. The rocket appeared to have passed over Japan to the Pacific, Tokyo said. North Korea says it is sending a satellite into orbit, but its neighbours suspect the launch could be a cover for a long-range missile test. They say it violates UN resolutions and have warned of consequences.
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News outlets are reporting that North Korea has successfully launched a multi-stage rocket that passed over Japan, despite warnings from the international community and President Barack Obama specifically. By tomorrow, details will emerge about this launch. The report below by CNN's Jim Clancy makes it clear why this really matters. It is not just the threat of North Korea using such a rocket to deliver a nuclear payload, but the fact that they sell arms to Iran, Pakistan and whoever will pay them the cash . . . . . . (Watch Video)
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Japanese broadcaster NHK says North Korea has launched a missile as threatened with a report the second stage landed in the Pacific Ocean about 1,100 miles from Japan. North Korea had informed international authorities that it planned to launch a rocket sometime between Saturday and Wednesday to put a satellite into orbit. But the U.S., South Korea, Japan and others suspect it is a cover for testing a long-range missile for the North, which has nuclear weapons. Leaders from those countries had warned Pyongyang not to proceed with the planned rocket launch. Japanese government sources reported it appeared to be...
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Joe Biden was right, the world is testing Obama
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(snip) Meanwhile, Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, said the launch was "an impressive technological achievement." "It likely represents, however, the upper limits of what the country can do by stretching and adapting the Scud technology they acquired from the former Soviet Union. This small, impoverished nation would need to make three key additional breakthroughs to turn this launch vehicle into a nuclear-armed missile capable of reaching the continental United States." Mr. Cirincione said the North Korean satellite appeared to weigh between 330 and 440 pounds and was put into a low-Earth orbit about 340 miles high. By comparison,...
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"Our scientists and engineers have succeeded in sending satellite 'Kwangmyongsong-2' into orbit by way of carrier rocket 'Unha-2'," state news agency KCNA reported. It added that it was transmitting data and the "Song of General Kim Il-sung" and "Song of General Kim Jong-il" - references to the late founder of North Korea and his son, the current leader.
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I posted a thread on Palin here. It is now on revokethegames.comFirst to the term Russophobe in the title of this thread. It now seems that so-called conservatives are calling people who feel we can't trust Russia, "Russophobes". Case in point: This blogger seems to have a beef with calling out Russia on Georgia and labels people who call out Russia, as Russophobes. What is interesting is the blogger's effort to discount the site by naming names and links Hugh Hewitt's name with the site. RevokeTheGames.com and Other Astroturf Sites The website RevokeTheGames.com appeared just ten days after the Georgia...
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Here is video of CNN's Chris Lawerence using their magic wall and satellite technology to "map" the path of the multi-stage rocket launched by North Korea late last night U.S. time. . . . . . (Watch Video)
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President Obama said that North Korea violated international rules when it tested a rocket that could be used for long-range missiles, and he called on the United Nations Security Council to take action. "This provocation underscores the need for action, not just this afternoon at the Security Council but in our determination to prevent the spread of these weapons," Mr. Obama said. "Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something." The United States Northern Command issued a statement that North Korea's taepodong 2 missile flew over Japan, with its payload landing in the Pacific Ocean. "No...
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The video above shows President Barack Obama reacting to the North Korean Launch of a multi-stage rocket that took place late last night U.S. time. Obama said the launch violated United Nations Security Council resolutions. The video below shows Obama condemning North Korea's launch in a speech he gave to a massive crowd in Prague. He said North Korea broke the rules and breaking the rules "must be punished." He did not say what that punishment should be. . . . . . (Watch Videos)
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As long as a potential nuclear threat persists from Iran, the United States will continue pushing plans for missile defense, US President Obama in Prague US President Barack Obama pledges to go forward with plan for missile shield as long as Iran remains a threat, in Prague. (Reuters Photo) More Pictures Barak Obama said on Sunday
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North Korea failed in its attempt to get a satellite into space after a rocket launch early on Sunday, US and South Korean officials say. Two stages of the rocket and its payload landed in the Pacific Ocean, a US military statement said. Hours earlier North Korea claimed the satellite had successfully been put into orbit and was transmitting data.
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Game on. AP reports this morning: NKorea launches rocket, defying world pressureIt looks to me that before the ink is dry in the history books, history is repeating again: In the 1990's Saddam Hussein was able to do anything he wanted with impunity while the U.N. twiddled their thumbs with meaningless resolutions. Seventeen U.N. resolutions over 12 years telling Iraq "Don't you dare ... Don't you dare." And when George W. Bush finally put our money where our mouths were in 2003, the world community turned its back. And just days ago our traitor of a president stood in France...
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BEIJING -- China, North Korea's chief ally, offered a muted response to its launch of a long-range rocket on Sunday, calling on all sides to maintain calm and exercise restraint. The low-key reaction indicated that Beijing, a veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council, will likely oppose anything but a mild rebuke of Pyongyang during an emergency council session scheduled later Sunday in New York. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi had telephone conversations Sunday with his counterparts in the United States, Japan, South Korea and Russia, participants in stalled six-nation talks on halting North Korea's nuclear programs. Yang exchanged views...
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SEOUL -- South Korea and Japan scrambled to interpret the fallout from a North Korean rocket launch Sunday that the regime said placed a satellite into orbit -- a claim contradicted by both Washington and Seoul. National security officials met in separate meetings in Tokyo and Seoul, where anti-Pyongyang demonstrators clashed with police for the second time in three days -- this time burning a missile replica and a photograph of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Within hours after the three-stage rocket lifted off from North Korea's Musudan-ri launch facility at 11:20 a.m., the state-run North Korean press agency...
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told "Fox News Sunday" that he would have disabled the long-range missile before North Korea launched it, saying too many people "do not appreciate the scale of the threat that is evolving on the planet." "One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster," Gingrich said. "I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea." Reacting to President Barack Obama's speech in Prague, Gingrich called the plan for a Global Summit on Nuclear Security a "wonderful fantasy idea," saying Russia and other nations can't be...
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TOKYO -- North Korea's rocket sailed harmlessly over Japan on Sunday morning, but a significant fallout from Pyongyang's display of technological prowess is how it may affect this pacifist nation's military stance. Clearly shaken by the launch of the rocket, which North Korea called a satellite but many outside suspect was a missile, Tokyo swiftly called it a "serious act of provocation" and made an urgent call for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council. Within Japan, the threat posed by North Korea's technology is likely to spark fresh debate about whether Japan should increase its military capabilities, revise...
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told "Fox News Sunday" that he would have disabled the long-range missile before North Korea launched it, saying too many people "do not appreciate the scale of the threat that is evolving on the planet." "One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster," Gingrich said. "I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea." Reacting to President Barack Obama's speech in Prague, Gingrich called the plan for a Global Summit on Nuclear Security a "wonderful fantasy idea," saying Russia and other nations can't be...
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The ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee is introducing legislation that "conditions diplomatic relations" with North Korea on its abandoning its nuclear weapons program -- one of several congressional responses to news of the communist nation's defiant missile launch on Sunday. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., expressed grave concern over North Korea's continued missile tests, calling the country "a direct threat to U.S. forces stationed in the Pacific, to our South Korean and Japanese allies and to Americans living in the states of Alaska and Hawaii." "Today's actions not only show North Korea's advancing military capabilities but also the...
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The Obama administration is facing its first test in an international crisis as the U.N. Security Council prepares Sunday for an emergency session to consider a response to North Korea's rocket launch earlier in the day U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice is leading the U.S. delegation to the world body. Echoing President Obama and other administration officials, Rice called North Korea's launch "serious and provocative" and said Pyongyang's actions demonstrate why the U.S. is concerned about its capability of delivering weapons. "That's what we're most concerned about preventing, and preventing North Korea from sharing that technology with...
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Here is video of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Fox News Sunday today saying the United States should have "taken out" the North Korean missile before it was fired late last night. Gingrich said: "We do not appreciate the scale of threat that is evolving on the planet, and North Korea is a totally irresponsible dictatorship run by a person who is clearly out of touch with reality, and I think to say, you know, we're now going to have another meeting at the U.N. to have another paper resolution that has meaningless effect is very dangerous." Gingrich was...
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So now we're supposed to get upset if one of the world's madmen violates a U.N. Security Council resolution? How convenient. This provocation underscores the need for action -- not just this afternoon at the U.N. Security Council, but in our determination to prevent the spread of these weapons," Mr. Obama said. I hope that stern talking-to came with an official presidential finger-wagging too. Wow, the Obama magic is so strong that I find myself wishing Hillary Clinton was president now. We would at least have a president who had some balls. That 3:00 AM phone call is coming in and President...
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North Korea's Kim Jong Il and his henchmen are often described as "irrational" or "mad." This description does them a great disservice, for they have stayed in power for decades by manipulating great powers. Sunday's missile launch is just another step in a complicated political game whose aim has not changed since the 1960s: to ensure a steady influx of foreign aid without making any concessions which might put regime at risk. [...] The first target of the North Korean missile is, of course, the White House -- not literally, but figuratively. Pyongyang's leaders know that under Barack Obama's administration,...
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'This Week' : Susan Rice UN Ambassador Susan Rice on "This Week..." April 5, 2009 <*snip* RICE: ...(W)e have 15 members of the Security Council and -- including the permanent five, so we all need to come together around this. But the United States' view is..., it's a violation, and it merits and appropriately strong United Nations response. We'll be... STEPHANOPOULOS: You mentioned... RICE: ...working for that. STEPHANOPOULOS: *snip* China has made it pretty clear they don't want any sanctions. And because of that, your predecessor, John Bolton, says that any kind of U.N. resolution is going to be...
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The United Nations Security Council met in emergency session last night as Western diplomats pushed for a robust response. The US was pressing last night for a formal Security Council resolution demanding compliance with existing UN sanctions and banning North Korea from importing luxury goods. China was expected to veto any effort to impose stronger sanctions. Gordon Brown called the launch completely unacceptable.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h3GPc_yMCE I know this video was all the rage back during the election of '06. However, in light of this weekends major stories, I thought I should repost this. If only America would have listened to Republican's in 2006...
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The U.N. Security Council met in emergency session on Sunday afternoon to discuss concerns over North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket. But the closed-door consultations did not produce a clear and unified response. Diplomats say the council was unified in its deep concern over the launch, but that it could not immediately agree what form its response should take. The United States and Japan say they want a clear message in the form of a Security Council resolution condemning the launch. U.S. Ambassador, Susan Rice said "It is our view that this action merits a clear and strong response...
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North Korea failed in its highly vaunted effort to fire a satellite into orbit, military and private experts said Sunday after reviewing detailed tracking data that showed the missile and payload fell into the sea. Some said the failure undercut the North Korean campaign to come across as a fearsome adversary able to hurl deadly warheads halfway around the globe. Defying world opinion, North Korea in recent weeks had moved steadily and fairly openly toward launching a long-range rocket that Western experts saw as a major step toward a military weapon. The launching itself on Sunday, which the North Korean...
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The launch of the North Korean missile has implications that go way beyond Asia. The reaction by the United States to the North Korean launch will have an impact on the Middle East. Jeffrey Goldberg's well publicized interview with new Israeli Premier Bibi Netanyahu showed that Bibi expects Obama to react strongly to rogue nations developing nuclear capability: "The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons," Netanyahu told me. He said the Iranian nuclear challenge represents a "hinge of history" and added that "Western civilization" will have failed if Iran is...
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Displaying an extraordinarily good sense of timing, North Korea launched a missile Saturday night to coincide with President Barack Obama's lecture about eliminating nuclear weapons from the face of the planet. The missile event was also a birthday tribute to Kim Jong Il's late father. There is talk that Lil Kim himself may make a public appearance soon, his first since August.
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President Barack Obama, in the face of a rocket launch this weekend by North Korea, announced an ambitious U.S. arms-control campaign aimed at drastically reducing atomic weapons globally while still recognizing developing nations' rights to pursue nuclear power. Mr. Obama's strategy, unveiled Sunday in a speech to a Czech crowd of 20,000, commits the U.S. to take the lead in reducing its nuclear-weapons stockpile in a bid to gain Russian and Chinese support for curbing the mounting proliferation threats posed by North Korea and Iran. The president said he would convene an international summit in Washington aimed at shrinking the...
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Here is a video report on the United Nations Security Council Meeting held this afternoon to discuss North Korea's launch of a multi-stage rocket. It does not take rocket scientist (pun intended!) to know that the Security Council could not come to any agreement because China and Russia will not support any kind of punitive measures against North Korea. President Obama must take action outside the U.N. if he is serious about sending North Korea the message that what they did "broke the rules." But I doubt he will do anything other than push for some meaningless, watered-down statement by...
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Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- Scientists and technicians of the DPRK have succeeded in putting satellite Kwangmyongsong-2, an experimental communications satellite, into orbit by means of carrier rocket Unha-2 under the state long-term plan for the development of outer space. Unha-2, which was launched at the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground in Hwadae County, North Hamgyong Province at 11:20 on April 5, Juche 98 (2009), accurately put Kwangmyongsong-2 into its orbit at 11:29:02, nine minutes and two seconds after its launch. The satellite is going round the earth along its elliptic orbit at the angle of inclination of 40.6 degrees at...
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HONG KONG (AFP) -- US Senator John McCain questioned China's commitment to restraining North Korea, and called Monday on Beijing and Moscow to back punitive sanctions after the hermit state's rocket launch. McCain, who stood unsuccessfully for the US presidency last year, said the reaction from Beijing and Moscow to Sunday's launch -- they urged restraint in handling the North -- had been "predictable." "We all know that the major influence on North Korea is China. Everyone knows that," McCain said. "The Chinese have been, I think, less than committed to restraining North Korea's activities." He said statements by China...
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Here is video of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nation Susan Rice speaking yesterday following the Security Council's Emergency Meeting regarding North Korea's launch of a multi-stage missile. Rice said the United States views the launch as a "clear-cut violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1718." Rice went on to say North Korea's action merits a strong response from the U.N. Security Council. But nothing at all came out of the meeting, with Russia saying they did not consider the launch a violation of any Security Council resolutions, and China urging a cautious and "proportional response" to the situation. ....
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PRAGUE -- Hours after North Korea's missile test, President Obama on Sunday called for new United Nations sanctions and laid out a new approach to American nuclear disarmament policy -- one intended to strengthen the United States and its allies in halting proliferation. ... Mr. Obama said that his administration would "reduce the role of nuclear weapons" in its national security strategy, and would urge other countries to do the same. He pointed to the agreement he reached last week with President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia to begin negotiations on reducing warheads and stockpiles, and said the two countries...
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Imagine you're a member of the MSM wanting to minimize the, uh, fallout for Pres. Obama from the North Korean missile launch made in defiance of his explicit warnings. What better way than to trivialize the event's significance? That's exactly what happened on today's Early Show, as Harry Smith suggested the launch was nothing but a "goofy stunt." Smith made his risible suggestion while speaking with UN Ambassador and Obama confidante Susan Rice. View video here.
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When it comes to domestic policy, President Obama has been repeatedly and legitimately criticized for focusing on the wrong issues. Even as the financial industry has gone into a meltdown, threatening the entire economy, he has devoted most of his energy and political capital to programs, such as expanding health-care coverage, that have nothing to do with the crisis at hand. The same may now be said of foreign policy.
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In the end, maybe it was better to have North Korea demonstrate its ineptitude at rocket science. According to every source but Pyongyang, the latest version of the Taepodong-2 had as much success as its predecessor in reaching orbit: none. The failure undermines yet again the inability of North Korea to mount a legitimate threat against the US, but it wasn't the only display of impotence this weekend:
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~snip That is why in the last five years a missile defense system has been put in place in Alaska. Because of security issues there is no word on whether the facilities at Fort Greely were activated. "I can't discuss military operations, plans or intelligence," said Maj. Guy Hayes with the Alaska Army National Guard. "But I can tell you that we stand ready to defend United States territories, allies and our national interests." In Alaska are long-range missile interceptors that are specifically made to counter any sort of ballistic missile headed towards the U.S.. Most experts agree North Korea...
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U.N. Ambassador Rice: Korean missile launch no 'goofy stunt' @ 10:04 am by Michael O'Brien The North Koreans' missile launch was not a "goofy stunt," United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice said Monday. "It was something serious and we need to take it seriously," Rice said this morning during an appearance on CBS, asserting that the missile launch was a clear provocation despite some evidence that it had been a failure. "It wasn't a goofy stunt." Rice called the U.N. Security Council to be pass a binding resolution in order to force the Koreans to reenter six-party talks aimed at denuclearization....
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Unknown old North Korean woman waves at Hillary Clinton because both have similar hair-dos. The U.S. State Department offered the North Korean leaders, its people and its people who are used as burros congratulations for a successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile that could be used to strike Japan and, hopefully, California.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Kim Jong Il with a commemorative "Relaunch" button, as well as replicas that can be passed out to his people who will probably eat them. The Relaunch buttons are like the re-set buttons the Secretary gave Russian leaders, who also...
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After a magnificent weekend here in God's Chosen Land, America, we're back. Behold this, this stinker: --- "North Korea broke the rules, once again, by testing a rocket that could be used for long-range missiles," Obama said in Prague. "This provocation underscores the need for action, not just this afternoon in the U.N. Security Council, but in our determination to prevent the spread of these weapons." --- That's right, Obama called North Korea's actions "provocative" as if this is some sort of paper he may have written in his Freshman film class at whatever made up community college provided him...
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When The New York Times reports on President Obama's foreign policy pronouncements, it treats rhetoric as reality. A story in today's paper, covering the administration's "response" to North Korea's missile test yesterday, gave the illusion of action in the face of international peril. The Times reports that Obama called for new U.N. sanctions (which haven't worked in the past). Our bold and decisive leader also "laid out a new approach to American nuclear disarmament policy -- one intended to strengthen the United States and its allies in halting proliferation." Further down in the story, The Times explains that this "new...
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Ah, yes, we can go back to old stories of the Democrat's attacks on the Bush administration and smell them like some overly-large bottle of extraordinarily cheap perfume. Given that North Korea is so big in the news over its launch of a ballistic missile, let's take in the stories from when Bush was the guy wearing the bulls eye on his back: Headline from January 13, 2003: "Democrats criticize Bush's N. Korea policy." And from March 5, 2003: "Democrats Criticize Bush Over North Korea." Headline from March 31, 2004: "House Democrats Criticize U.S. North Korea Policy;" From October 9,...
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Prior to yesterday's launch of a ballistic missile by North Korea, President Obama threatened severe consequences if the rogue country went ahead with their launch plans. So far those severe consequences have been non-existent. But the president promised consequences, would this be another promise that Obama breaks? I had to find out. So I figured this may be another job for my Cousin Ben the spy (his mother wanted him to go to med school, but that is a story for a different day). I asked Ben to sneak into the White House and find out what "consequences the president...
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran criticized on Monday U.S. President Barack Obama for saying Tehran posed a threat with its nuclear program and urged Washington and other countries possessing atom weapons to dismantle their arsenals. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi made the comments a day after Obama, who is seeking to engage Iran diplomatically in a sharp policy shift from George W. Bush's approach, set out his vision for ridding the world of such arms. Delivering a speech in Prague given new urgency by North Korea's rocket launch, Obama also said the United States would go ahead with plans to build...
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Video is here: http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=4224963&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=The transcript with my clean up is below
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