He says what South Korea and its allies have a problem with is the North's ability to deliver weapons of mass destruction at a long range, regardless of what is mounted on top of this particular rocket.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

Officials say Iran has made slower progress than expected in developing long-range ballistic missiles.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

Donald Slayton, another Air Force flier, worked on the long-range Atlas Rocket.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The president spoke just hours after North Korea launched a long-range rocket.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

Short-range test launches are not formally prohibited under United Nations sanctions against the North, which forbid medium and long-range ballistic activities.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

The long-range rocket Pyongyang intends to launch is theoretically capable of delivering a warhead as far as the western United States.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

North Korea fired a long-range missile over Japan in 1998 in an action that generated broad international protests.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

North Korea is warning the United States not to send surveillance planes too close to the site of a planned long-range rocket launch.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

Recently,President Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev agreed on a new treaty slashing long-range nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

The original missile defense policy was based on the assumption that Tehran was seeking a long-range capability.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

That means the long-range rocket, which international satellites have spotted on a North Korean launch pad, could fire its engines as early as Saturday.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

He says circumstantial evidence indicates the launch involves a long-range missile rather than a satellite.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Pyongyang pulled out of the talks earlier this year. It also tested both a long-range missile and a nuclear explosive, in violation of United Nations sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

But South Korean,Japanese,and U.S. officials are skeptical about the North's plan and suspect the so-called satellite launch is in reality a way to test a long-range rocket.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

The Bush-era program would have placed ground-based interceptors in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic to counter any long-range nuclear threat posed by Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Venezuelan President Chavez said in Moscow Sunday he had obtained a $2.2-billion line of credit from Russia for 90 T-72 tanks and an advanced long-range air defense system.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

U.S.officials say no part of the three-stage rocket reached orbit and the launching was a thinly-disguised test of a long-range ballistic missile that was banned under a 2006 U.N.resolution.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket became all but inevitable as Pyongyang informed international agencies it will put a satellite into space sometime between April 4 and 8.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

The alleged use of special operations troops in the raid could signal a shift away from the controversial U.S.tactic of relying on long-range missile assaults to take out terrorist targets.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

North Korea pulled out of the talks earlier this year. It also tested both a long-range missile and nuclear explosive earlier in the year, in violation of United Nations sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

The last phase of the new missile defense plan, to be ready by 2020, would be to develop interceptors with the capability of blocking long-range Iranian missiles aimed at the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

The Bush plan, which Russia strongly opposed, would have placed 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar base in the Czech Republic to intercept long-range missiles from such states as Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

U.S.officials say the self-described satellite launch would only be a cover for a test of a long-range missile, perhaps a more advanced version of the one North Korea fired eastward over Japan in 1998.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

South Korea warns any long-range launch by the North will be a violation of a U.N.resolution passed in 2006, when North Korea conducted long-range missile and nuclear weapons tests within months of each other.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

about the health of Kim Jong Il. The North Korean leader remained out of sight for a number of significant occasions, including the launch of a long-range rocket that angered the international community.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

U.S.officials said no part of the three-stage vehicle reached orbit, and that in any case it amounted to a long-range ballistic missile test forbidden under a Security Council resolution that followed its October 2006 nuclear test.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

Republican Congressman Trent Franks said, "It is disgracefully ironic that today's announcement comes only a week after announcing our abandonment of the European missile defense site which could have protected the homeland of the United States against Iranian long-range missiles."

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

"Senator Mitchell and the president are deeply engaged with the Israelis and the Palestinians in trying to address the larger issues of peace and security and to create a long-term solution to the range of problems there.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03