Word: shielding
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...Korea's missile program is Exhibit A in the case for building a national missile defense, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for one, has spent much of the past five years talking up the imminent missile threat from Pyongyang as a reason to hurry the deployment of a missile shield. If North Korea's missiles could be negotiated away for a couple of hundred million dollars in aid, that might seem a more appealing option to many on Capitol Hill than spending billions to deploy a missile shield...
...deal with North Korea's missiles, of course, is the subject of one of the fundamental planks of the Bush administration's foreign policy - national missile defense. Pyongyang's presumed missile capability has been Exhibit A in making the case for a shield designed to protect the U.S. from warheads fired by "rogue" states, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has spent much of the past five years talking up the North Korean threat. Rumsfeld and other administration hawks have never been comfortable with the Clinton policy of offering North Korea economic aid in exchange for curbing its roguish ways, seeing...
...confrontation, almost every major American "ally," except for Britain, has sided with Russia and vehemently condemned the proposed missile shield. Even Canada--the nation that has not disagreed with the U.S. on anything since the Alaskan Border dispute of 1903--has publicly declared its opposition...
Meanwhile, Russia has graciously offered to share its missile defense technology with the rest of Europe (NATO allies included), opening the possibility of creating a missile shield for the entire continent. Such an agreement would essentially destroy NATO, and divide the world along Cold War-type lines. But this time around it would not be Eastern Bloc vs. the West; it would be Europe vs. the United States...
...Reagan who famously proposed a missile shield, and even more famously refused to barter it away at the Reykjavik summit, an event many historians consider the turning point in the cold war. That marked the beginning of the Soviets' definitive realization that they were going to lose the arms race to the U.S.--and that neither threats nor cajoling could dissuade the U.S. from running...