The following is the official statement submitted by Nancy Menges, director of the Menges Hemispheric Security Project, to the House Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.

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"North Korea is hardly short of credible means of delivering nuclear weapons via missiles, all of which are for sale today in the Middle East, " said David Asher, a former State Department official, in testimony this week before House Foreign Relations Committee.

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