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...record as a serial proliferator makes it a major target. The program was spurred by an incident in December 2002, when a Spanish warship intercepted--and then released--a Cambodian-registered freighter in the Arabian Sea that was manned by North Koreans and was carrying 15 North Korean--made Scud missiles bound for Yemen. At the time, there was no international legal authority for the weapons to be seized. The PSI changed that, and the U.S. insists the program has crimped North Korea's exports of weapons and matériel in the years since...
...capability is thought to be years away The missile that crashed in two minutes is believed to be a three-stage rocket, though its exact configuration remains unclear. North Korea has several variations with longer potential ranges [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Scud B Scud C Nodong Taepo Dong-1 Taepo Dong-2 STATUS Developed Developed Developed Tested In development RANGE 200 miles 350 miles 800 miles 900 to 1,200 miles 3,000 to 3,700 miles PAYLOAD...
WHAT WE THOUGHT THEN Intelligence officials were convinced that after the first Gulf War, Saddam had secretly retained a few dozen Scud-variant missiles, capable of traveling almost 600 miles, and was actively working to develop other long-range delivery systems...
WHAT WE KNOW NOW Iraq was indeed planning on developing long-range ballistic missiles that could travel 600 miles or more, but none of the designs were even close to being produced. At the same time, the Duelfer report states that Iraq did not possess any covert arsenal of Scud-variant missiles...
...Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” (DPRK) has amply demonstrated its enthusiasm for selling illicit arms on the international market. In 2002, for instance, the Spanish navy intercepted a North Korean vessel shipping scud missiles to Yemen. Back in 1998 the DPRK was found to have sold missile technology to Pakistan’s Khan Research Lab. (As in Abdul Qadeer Khan, who confessed this year to selling nuclear technology to Libya and Iran.) The danger that the regime will now sell nuclear weapons to terrorists cannot be brushed aside...