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Norks have 1, 000 Missiles, South Says
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has increased its missile arsenal by 25 percent in the past two years to about 1,000, expanding the threat the state poses to the region, the South's defense chief said Wednesday. Pyongyang's arsenal includes intermediate-range missiles that can hit targets at up to 3,000 km (1,860 miles) away, Yonhap news agency quoted Kim Tae-young as telling a forum of business leaders. The missiles could hit all of Japan and put U.S. military bases in Guam at risk.South Korea's last estimate of the North's missile stockpile was 800 done in 2008, Yonhap said. Its Defense White Paper in 2008 said the North had deployed the intermediate range missile. The estimate comes at a time when the North is seen to be under increasing pressure to return to six-party talks on nuclear disarmament, following economic sanctions imposed on it after its nuclear test in May 2009. Posted by: Steve White 2010-03-18 |
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