N Korea developing intercontinental ballistic missile

Hindustan Times.com | 9/12/03

[jerseygirl]

'N Korea developing intercontinental ballistic missile' Press Trust of India Washington, September 12

The Bush administration has evidence that North Korea has been using Russian technology to develop a new intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching targets in the continental United States, a US official said.

The official estimated that the new ballistic missile would have a potential range at 9,400 miles.

The distance from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang to San Francisco is about 5,500 miles, he said.

In theory at least, the new missile could strike any target on US soil, the official preferring anonymity said.

[gaijin]

Oh for crying out loud, let's push the buttons and just take them out....

[jerseygirl]

Wonder how they got that "Russian technology".

[Poohbah]

One author called the XUSSR nuclear weapons establishment "the yard sale at the end of history."

[jerseygirl]

Interesting choice of words!

[MalcolmS]

One author called the XUSSR nuclear weapons establishment "the yard sale at the end of history."

Isn't that just past the restaurant at the end of the universe?

[Poohbah]

In 1990, right after the Berlin Wall came down, Francis Fukuyama argued in an essay titled "The End of History" that history had ended--that the world had opted for liberal democracy as its governing form of choice.

13 years later, it sounds a lot sillier than it did to most folks in 1990. (Back then, it only sounded silly to folks actually in the national security business, as I was).

Well, fast-forward four years. A guy named William Burrows was researching a book (which came out as "Critical Mass") about the worldwide race to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and he went to Moscow for some research.

Space launch systems and critical WMD components were all for sale at very low prices.

He said that it reminded him of a yard sale, and he titled the chapter on the whole issue "The Yard Sale at the End of History."

[Poohbah]

No--it's ACROSS from Milliway's. It's where Disaster Area gets their sound systems (the ones that violate arms control treaties :o)

[AmericanInTokyo]

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