Mr Meles cowed his smaller neighbour and persuaded the world to see it as a rogue state.
The Americans, for their part, had previously sought to exclude Iran, writing it off as a rogue state.
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Another possibility to consider is that a rogue state, such as North Korea, will enter the burgeoning drug market.
If true, it would have enormous security implications for Asia--a rogue state with its own sputniks orbiting over their neighborhood.
The risk of a rogue state taking a pot shot at America, although small, is clearly growing as deadly weaponry spreads.
Creating something bad deliberately, whether the creator is a teenage hacker, a terrorist or a rogue state, is a different matter.
He added that the current North Korea crisis had shown world leaders what could happen when a rogue state acquired nuclear weapons.
So North Korea remains a rogue state with an alarming nuclear programme rather than being a nuclear power in its own right.
What is worst is that Obama's advisers openly admit that they have no idea why Syria remains a rogue state despite their happy talk.
By blasting infrastructure across Lebanon and targeting residential areas and blocking food and fuel supplies, Israel used its military supremacy like a rogue state.
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Officials frequently talk of Pakistan as all but a rogue state.
"Containment does not work against a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and chooses to secretly deliver them to its terrorist allies, " he said.
Now that this information is known what else does the U.S. defense and foreign policy establishment need in order to understand that Venezuela is a rogue state.
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Even though Iran is viewed as a rogue state by many in the international community, Chavez has promised that Venezuela will come to their defense if need be.
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The Administration has been trying to lull Congress and the American people with assertions that we would have a five-to-ten-year warning period if a rogue state decided to develop these capabilities.
What if such a rogue state chose merely to threaten the launch of WMD-equipped ballistic missiles in order to dissuade an undefended United States from resisting its acts of local aggression?
It makes far better sense for the enemy be it a terrorist group, a rogue state, or a combination of both to wage chemical, biological or even cyber-warfare against American society, exploiting its openness.
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What if some day a rogue state--or even a traditionally friendly country turned enemy--decides to set off a nuclear device in space that results in an electromagnetic pulse destroying our ability to communicate?
How can any senator stand up and tell the American people that before deciding whether America goes to war against a rogue state such as Iraq, it needs to hear the "final recommendation" of Syria, a regime on the State Department's official terrorist list?
Professor Celeste Wallander (Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington): Putin has been very good at casting the United States as being kind of a, you know, a rogue state in its behavior and threatening to all the countries of Europe, not just Russia, but other countries of Europe.
And it's not so much that they're worried that a rogue state such as North Korea or Iraq or some other country is seriously considering an attack on the United States, but the argument that the Pentagon makes is that even the threat of that attack can change the way other people react, and change public opinion.
As hearings before the House Armed Services Committee and a new "Backgrounder" by Jack Spencer of the Heritage Foundation entitled "America's Vulnerability to a Different Nuclear Threat: An Electromagnetic Pulse, " makes clear, a rogue state or other enemy could inflict grievous harm on an advanced society like America's by exploding a nuclear weapon high above the United States.
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France, writes Nicolas Demorand in the centre-left Liberation , has stopped Mali becoming a "rogue state".
Even more troubling are indications that the Clinton-Gore Administration hopes that by no longer seeing North Korea as a "rogue state, " or calling it that, will enable the President to finesse his increasingly problematic approach to building a limited national missile defense.
In Geneva, Schulte noted that Syria is a nuclear proliferating rogue state that has refused to cooperate with UN inspectors.
Zimbabwe also highlights the problem of how to deal with a country which is regarded as a rogue or failing state.
Iran's low-ball offers have put off investors who have no problem with investing in a nuclear-proliferating rogue state.
That's also because Hague understands America's need for a missile defense against rogue-state blackmail.
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The lesson from Mandiant is that we must all come together and collectively fight cybercrime, irrespective of whether the criminal is a rogue hacker or a nation state.
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It is quite evident that Cuban intelligence is extremely organized and sophisticated, and does not function like that of a typical isolated third-world rogue state.
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