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North Korean Nukes and Hillary’s Blame Game By E.F. Winslow 4-29-2005 Thursday, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency said in Senate testimony that the U.S. intelligence community believed North Korea had acquired the technology for arming its missiles with nuclear warheads. If true, it means they are now capable of launching a nuclear strike on not only neighbors like Japan and U.S holdings in the Pacific, but even the Western United States. The claims came in dramatic testimony from the director Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, although he did not cite evidence to back up his view during the public...

(EXCLUSIVE to MSNBC) U.S. officials says rockets could aid Tehran's nuke program KIEV, Ukraine - President Viktor Yushchenko confirmed Thursday that nuclear-capable cruise missiles were illegally sold to Iran and China under Ukraine’s previous government. In an interview with NBC News, Yushchenko offered the highest-level acknowledgement that the sales, which have alarmed the U.S. intelligence community, indeed took place. < snip > Yushchenko said the X-55 missiles, called AS-15s by NATO, were exported under a forged contract that listed Russia as the destination country. A copy of the contract viewed by NBC News appears to bear necessary clearance stamps for...

TOKYO (Reuters) - There is strong evidence that North Korea and Iran are cooperating on missile development, a senior U.S. official was quoted as saying on Saturday. Japan's Asahi Shimbun daily did not name the U.S. official, whom it quoted as telling reporters on Friday during a visit to Tokyo that Iran had given data on launch tests to North Korea. Iran and North Korea are part of U.S. President George W. Bush's "axis of evil". "There is very strong evidence indicating that Iran and North Korea are cooperating on ballistic missile development," Asahi quoted the U.S. official as saying....

US JUDGE OVERTURNS EXECUTIVES' CONVICTIONS Author(s): Andrea Estes, Globe Staff Date: August 15, 2003 Page: B1 Section: Metro/Region A federal judge has thrown out the eight-year-old convictions of two defense company executives who sold technology that helped India build better nuclear missiles, finding that even though their conduct was "reprehensible," it was not criminal. In a stunning finale to a decade-long drama, US District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock overturned the jury convictions last month of Walter Lachman of Concord and Maurice Subilia of Kennebunkport, Maine, but sealed the decision until yesterday. The top executives of two related high-tech companies were...