State Department spokesmen said firing a missile over Japan and into the Pacific did not violate a 1994 agreement freezing North Korea's nuclear weapons program, since this was ostensibly a satellite launch. However the failed satellite launch was tracked for 4000 miles into the Pacific Ocean, a range that could make Alaska and Hawaii vulnerable to a North Korean attack.

Although it is not easy to determine motives, the launching of this missile may be designed for Iraq, Iran and Pakistan as much as South Korea. As the leading supplier of nuclear technology to rogue states, North Korea depends on these

While the U.S. government chastised India and Pakistan for their nuclear tests with economic sanctions, scarcely a word has been heard from the State Department about the implications of this North Korean test. Most intelligence experts assumed North Korea has only single-stage missile technology. That delusion is now over. One C.I.A. official called the test "a troubling technical surprise." This, of course, isn't the first time the Clinton administration has been surprised by a test.

sales for the only hard currency to be found in this largely impoverished nation.

Perhaps Clinton's non-confrontational position will work, but as this nation refuses to build defenses against ballistic missiles due to the prohibition in the ABM treaty the present strategy would appear to be based largely on misguided good will. Does President Clinton actually think Kim Jong II will halt missile tests after the U.S. dollars come rolling in?

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