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...miles, is "a direct threat to Israel, Turkey [and] U.S. forces in the region." If its research and development program goes unchecked, Bolton warned, Iran could soon have missiles capable of delivering payloads to Western Europe and the U.S. And if that isn't scary enough, CIA director Porter Goss said in congressional testimony last week that North Korea's new, untested Taepo Dong-2 missile "is capable of reaching the United States with a nuclear-weapon-sized payload...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ominous Pairing | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...implications of a North Korea--Iran deal to share and test these missiles are grim. Equally ominous, Goss said, intelligence shows that North Korea is seeking to raise hard currency by peddling its missile technology to new clients beyond Iran. To blunt that effort, U.S. officials say, the CIA and other U.S. agencies are redoubling their efforts to track and intercept North Korean shipments and covert communications about advanced missile technologies. --By Elaine Shannon

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ominous Pairing | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists." PORTER GOSS, in his first U.S. Congressional testimony as CIA director, on the unintended consequences of the war in Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...issued by Japanese and U.S. officials in 2002, didn't mention Taiwan at all. To add zest to the controversy, the communiqué came at the end of a week when China had already been annoyed by American musings on Taiwan. In testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Porter Goss, Director of the CIA had said-in another display of the blindingly obvious-that "Beijing's military modernization and military buildup is tilting the balance of power in the Taiwan Strait." China branded Goss's comments "irresponsible" and said that "the U.S. has outrageously interfered with Chinese internal affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia Has a Taste of Things to Come | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...truth. As the six-party talks, which began in 2003, dragged on, the North appears to have become a greater military threat and proliferator of missiles (and possibly nuclear weapons technology) to rogue states. Underscoring the danger last week in testimony to the U.S. Congress, CIA Director Porter Goss declared that North Korean missiles have been improved to the point that one long-range version, the Taepo Dong-2, "is capable of reaching the U.S. with a nuclear weapon-sized payload...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking the Tightrope | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

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