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...decommissioning them. But nobody would have expected the accident, when it came, to strike the Kursk, a spanking new Oscar II-class nuclear sub that only went into service in 1995. Yet it is the Kursk that languishes 350 feet down on the ocean floor, stricken after what the Russian navy calls a "big and serious collision." And despite a dramatic rescue effort, Moscow rates its chances of rescuing the 100-odd crewmen aboard as "not very high...
...negative spin on the prospects of rescuing the crew suggests the Russian navy has learned the wiles of media management. To be sure, plenty can go wrong in a complex mission to establish an air link and an escape route from the vessel at a depth of 350 feet in Arctic waters. But diminishing the prospects for their survival means the news can't get any worse, only better...
...North Korea has lately been sending signals that it might not cooperate with that prediction. During his July 19 visit to Pyongyang, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that strongman Kim Jong Il had told him North Korea would shelve its intercontinental ballistic missile program if other countries would launch several of its satellites at their expense. Washington was skeptical. Was Kim making the offer? Or was this an offer Putin hoped he would make so Moscow could derail the U.S. missile defense plan, which it opposes...
...week later, Russian officials revealed that they have a letter they say Kim gave Putin during his July 19 visit, which reaffirms Pyongyang's offer to halt its intercontinental ballistic missile program. That pricked up ears in the State Department, which is now probing North Korean diplomatic contacts to find out just what the "Dear Leader" has in mind...
...deploying a missile that could threaten the U.S. a lot sooner than 2015, which is when the spy agencies agree the U.S. potentially becomes vulnerable to missile threats from states such as Iran and Iraq. And in a second, unclassified report released to Congress Wednesday, the CIA reports that Russian firms are helping Iran develop its missile capability, while China continues to provide such assistance to Pakistan. In other words, there are a growing number of missiles in the hands of people not bound by Cold War keep-the-peace conventions...