Kim Jong-il, for all his faults, has proven he can build fearsome weapons and long-range missiles.
With help from Russia, China and North Korea, it is building increasingly long-range missiles.
It will also be transferring know-how on long-range missiles, as well as nuclear technology.
North Korean long-range missiles have failed three previous tests in the past 11 years.
Western nations have expressed concern that Iran's space programme is being used to develop long-range missiles.
China has just 18 long-range missiles with outdated single warheads, according to U.S. estimates.
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With respect to the long-range missiles, we managed to strike and hurt most of their capability.
The recent crisis began with Pyongyang's testing of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles starting late last year.
Their nuclear weapons programs progress, as do their programs to develop long-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
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North Korea broke the rules once again by testing a rocket that could be used for long-range missiles.
Also, and especially in light of the proliferation of long-range missiles, theater and national missile defenses are key.
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An Iranian diplomat in New York denied North Korea has helped Tehran develop long-range missiles, declining to comment further.
Experts say North Korea has not demonstrated that it has accurate long-range missiles.
In 2006, IAF strikes in the first 24 hours of the war knocked out all of Hezbollah's long-range missiles.
Experts, however, doubt the regime has managed to develop a nuclear warhead small enough to mount on its long-range missiles.
Article V barred the development of the most efficient approaches to defending against long-range missiles (sea-, air- and space-based systems).
The bipartisan commission noted that, by so doing, nations without long-range missiles would nonetheless be able to attack the United States.
Now that the Stalinist hermit-state has successfully tested long-range missiles and atomic weapons, though, such statements have to be taken seriously.
The US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University said its analysis of images "indicates that North Korea continues to develop long-range missiles".
Israeli President Shimon Perez had accused Damascus on Tuesday of shipping the long-range missiles to guerrillas in the south of Lebanon.
Their remarks have concentrated on what is already largely recognized - that Israel's home front will be targeted by long-range missiles.
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The North is not believed to have mastered the technology needed to miniaturize nuclear bombs enough to mount them on long-range missiles.
It may be hoping that its new long-range missiles would make South Korea's allies, including America, think twice before joining the fray.
The United States argued Hussein's regime had been harboring forbidden stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, long-range missiles and a nuclear weapons program.
U.S. and Asian defense strategists view Pyongyang's development of long-range missiles as particularly threatening because the nation could tip them with nuclear warheads.
Now, they have the option of simply buying even long-range missiles and, in all likelihood, weapons of mass destruction to go with them.
The Iranian government is spending money from the gas sales on long- range missiles capable of reaching Israel and Europe, said Roger Robinson Jr.
Indeed, its concern about future threats from unpredictably violent countries and people who are attempting to acquire long-range missiles is naturally going to intensify.
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While the former has shrunk with the retirement of Soviet-era long-range missiles andsubmarines, what remains is being systematically upgraded with modern warheads and platforms.
The ability to use a mobile, sea-going platform means that the regime and its friends need not seek long-range missiles to attack distant targets.
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