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Figure 3

North Korea: Current and Future Ballistic Missile Capability

Source: Office of the Secretary of Defense, Proliferation: Threat and Response (Washington: Department of

Defense, 1997), p. 7.

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Korean Central Broadcasting Network (the

illustrates the growing potential threat from

official news agency of North Korea), . . .

North Korea.

the . . . launch was a three-stage rocket that

The specter of the North Korean threat

placed a satellite into orbit."35 Robert D. Wal-

became more real with the test-firing of a

Taepo Dong 1 missile in August 1998. Inside

pole, the senior intelligence officer for strate-

Missile Defense reported: "According to the

gic intelligence programs at the CIA, stated:

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