It has civilian rockets that can be converted long range ballistic missile.
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North Korea, meanwhile, is believed to be preparing to test a long-range ballistic missile that could reach the United States.
North Korea said the rocket was designed to carry an observation satellite, though the United States, South Korea and Japan said it was a cover for a long-range ballistic missile test.
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While North Korea has a poor track record at successful long-range ballistic missile tests, U.S. intelligence officials have said Pyongyang is taking its time and making sure it's doing things right this time.
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Unfortunately, the Dayton and Oslo accords look like works of genius compared to the agreements the Clinton-Gore team has conjured up in the name of curbing the spread of weapons of mass destruction and their long-range ballistic missile delivery systems.
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When on Sunday Obama responded to North Korea's launch of a long-range ballistic missile by announcing that he wishes to all but disarm the US of its nuclear arsenal, he was effectively arguing that US strength is to blame for North Korea's aggression.
India has successfully launched a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile able to carry a nuclear warhead, officials say.
Iran is still capable of testing a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile by 2015 "without sufficient foreign assistance, " the report added.
The U.S. and other countries, most notably Korea's close neighbor Japan, are deeply worried by the North's long-range ballistic-missile program, which Pyongyang has put on hold but not abandoned.
While the existing Aegis system would have very limited ability to shoot down long-range ballistic missiles, the presence of an American missile defense of even uncertain effectiveness may help dissuade nations contemplating attacks and comfort coalition partners, other allies, and U.S. personnel sent into harm's way who have reason to fear those attacks.
Security Council last year condemned North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket, saying it violated a resolution banning ballistic missile testing.
The United States should preserve the survivability of its sea-based deterrent by retaining the largest possible number of ballistic missile submarines and by deploying long-range nuclear-armed cruise missiles among a large number of naval platforms.
Even the Clinton-Gore Administration professes to perceive a real danger of ballistic missile threats from rogue states like North Korea and Iran now aggressively acquiring long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction.
The national security and commercial implications of this decision have been exacerbated, however, by two other, seemingly unrelated actions: President Obama's decision to stop producing long-range missile defense interceptors and to defer indefinitely any replacement of our aging nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile force.
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