Word: pyongyang
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...miles, far greater than anything else in the North's arsenal, the Taepo Dong-1 can reach all of Japan--and the 41,000 U.S. troops stationed there. The missile also raised the prospect of new threats to the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East, where Pyongyang sells its missiles to clients like Libya and Iran. More worrisome still is what the launch says about Pyongyang's aggressive missile program. Some experts believe North Korea is well on the way to building even more muscular missiles, capable of reaching Alaska, Hawaii and even the western part...
...fire the missile now? The launch undoubtedly impressed potential weapon buyers. Missile sales are Pyongyang's biggest source of foreign exchange, peaking at about $700 million a year in the late 1980s, according to South Korean analysts. But revenue has declined to about $50 million as Pyongyang's clients have found other suppliers. With its economy imploding, the country desperately needs hard currency. "What they are doing is demonstrating a new product," says a senior Administration official...
...three-stage missile! No, it's a satellite. In a highly dubious twist to the ongoing military tension between North Korea and Japan, the Korean Central News Agency now claims that the ballistic rocket fired five days ago was not a test -- but the launching of Pyongyang's very own Sputnik. "Our scientists and technicians have succeeded in launching the first artificial satellite aboard a multi-stage rocket," KCNA said Friday. Not only that, but this little orbital wonder is apparently transmitting "the song of General Marshal Kim Jong Il" across the globe at this very moment...
...Scud -- that crossed Japanese territory and splashed down in the Pacific Monday morning, according to Japan's Defense Agency. Now an outraged Japan is refusing to back a deal to build nuclear reactors in North Korea, effectively scuppering the nuclear freeze negotiations under way in New York. What was Pyongyang thinking...
...design usable atom bombs, possibly including missile warheads. Other analysts disagree; some Clinton Administration officials think hard-liners are leaking these reports to choke off congressional support for oil shipments to North Korea, which the U.S. pledged to fund in 1994 as part of a deal that shut down Pyongyang's known nuclear program. Even if the bad news is true, the new reactor is not expected to generate more bombmaking material for several years. But if North Korea is able to design a working bomb, analysts generally believe it stockpiled enough plutonium before 1994 to build...