If the intelligence is sound, then the practical side of seizing these weapons stockpiles, and destroying the long range missiles, might not be insurmountable.
The ground based interceptors are meant to destroy long range missiles launched by North Korea to the U.S. There are currently 30 interceptors in Alaska and California.
The Assad regime spent years buying up sophisticated long range missiles, air defense systems and chemical weapons to counter the threat of an airborne attack from Israel.
"Intelligence personnel are closely monitoring North Korea's readiness with its short, middle and long range missiles such as Scud missile, Nodong missile and Musudan missile, " South Korean defence ministry official Kim Min-seok said.
Those missiles have been augmented by hundreds of guided long-range missiles north of the Litani with warheads capable of bringing down skyscrapers in Tel Aviv.
An internal report from the Iraqi National Congress, the chief Iraqi opposition group, says that during a televised procession at Baghdad's military parade ground last year, new missiles were displayed, including ones that appeared to violate the U.N. ban on long-range missiles that is meant to prevent Iraq from threatening Europe.
Kim Jong-il, for all his faults, has proven he can build fearsome weapons and long-range missiles.
With help from Russia, China and North Korea, it is building increasingly long-range missiles.
It will also be transferring know-how on long-range missiles, as well as nuclear technology.
North Korean long-range missiles have failed three previous tests in the past 11 years.
Western nations have expressed concern that Iran's space programme is being used to develop long-range missiles.
China has just 18 long-range missiles with outdated single warheads, according to U.S. estimates.
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With respect to the long-range missiles, we managed to strike and hurt most of their capability.
The recent crisis began with Pyongyang's testing of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles starting late last year.
Their nuclear weapons programs progress, as do their programs to develop long-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
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North Korea broke the rules once again by testing a rocket that could be used for long-range missiles.
Also, and especially in light of the proliferation of long-range missiles, theater and national missile defenses are key.
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An Iranian diplomat in New York denied North Korea has helped Tehran develop long-range missiles, declining to comment further.
Experts say North Korea has not demonstrated that it has accurate long-range missiles.
In 2006, IAF strikes in the first 24 hours of the war knocked out all of Hezbollah's long-range missiles.
Experts, however, doubt the regime has managed to develop a nuclear warhead small enough to mount on its long-range missiles.
Article V barred the development of the most efficient approaches to defending against long-range missiles (sea-, air- and space-based systems).
The bipartisan commission noted that, by so doing, nations without long-range missiles would nonetheless be able to attack the United States.
Now that the Stalinist hermit-state has successfully tested long-range missiles and atomic weapons, though, such statements have to be taken seriously.
The US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University said its analysis of images "indicates that North Korea continues to develop long-range missiles".
Israeli President Shimon Perez had accused Damascus on Tuesday of shipping the long-range missiles to guerrillas in the south of Lebanon.
Their remarks have concentrated on what is already largely recognized - that Israel's home front will be targeted by long-range missiles.
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The North is not believed to have mastered the technology needed to miniaturize nuclear bombs enough to mount them on long-range missiles.
It may be hoping that its new long-range missiles would make South Korea's allies, including America, think twice before joining the fray.
The United States argued Hussein's regime had been harboring forbidden stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, long-range missiles and a nuclear weapons program.
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