And the second question has to do with extending the missile range of South Korea.
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And so there are no specific preconditions around -- or specific obstacles around the missile range issue.
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And could you explain the status of the negotiations regarding extending the missile range of South Korea?
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Such a land handover would place all of Israel within Palestinian and Lebanese rocket, mortar and missile range.
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The U.S. Army dedicated its largest solar photovoltaic (PV) system to date at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico today.
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Mesilla was near the White Sands Missile Range, and was home to many scientists, including Clyde Tombaugh, who had discovered Pluto, in 1930.
AeroVironment also established world altitude records with its solar-electric, unmanned aircraft systems at the U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands on Kauai.
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Such a missile is being developed at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, and will soon be tested at the White Sands Missile Range.
Now the laser is being tested by the Navy on board ships and by the Army at its White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
The Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported that Armenian military experts were trained in the use of advanced rocket systems last year at a Russian missile range.
In a recent press interview you spoke about the fact that discussions are proceeding between the U.S. and Korea regarding extending the missile range of South Korea.
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You asked about extending the missile range of South Korea.
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Now part of the White Sands Missile Range, Trinity remains a secretive place: It is open to the public just two days of the year, on the first Saturday of October and April.
The conflict ends with defeat of North Korean forces and decapitation of the North Korean leadership through massive airstrikes, but the damage to South Korea and Japan, which is within missile range, is appalling.
This is even more true if, as I suspect will be the case, Iraq's entry into the so-called "nuclear club" will compel every country within missile range of Baghdad to seek its own nuclear strike capabilities.
The South Korean government's position is that since North Korea has a capability of more than 3, 000 kilometers in its missile range, that is one reason why you hope to extend the missile range here in South Korea.
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Born in the northern province of Chernihiv on the border with Russia, he spent much of his career as a missile engineer, at the missile range at Baikonur in Kazakhstan and the top-secret Pivdenie missile factory near Dnipropetrovsk, where he eventually became general director.
And we will continue to instruct our teams that they work closely together to ensure what is the ultimate outcome -- which is not any particular weapon system or any particular missile range, but rather can we protect our people, can we make sure that the objectives of the alliance are achieved.
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The North issued a similar warning before testing a long-range missile in April, but that warning indicated two potential danger areas more indicative of a long-range missile test.
It made the same claim when it launched its first long-range missile in 1998, but it didn't discuss satellites or space when it fired a long-range missile in 2006.
Two U.S. State Department officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the long-range missile was the Taepodong-2, North Korea's most advanced missile with a range of up to 15, 000 kilometers 9, 320 miles.
India has said its 2, 000-2, 500km-range Agni missile is now ready for deployment, and it may be developing an intercontinental-range missile under cover of its Russian-assisted space programme.
Wood would not comment on reports that North Korea is moving missile equipment for another possible long-range missile test but repeated that missile launches by Pyongyang constitute a violation of existing U.N. resolutions.
On Tuesday, Yediot Aharonot reported that Israeli analysts who reviewed videotapes of North Korea's missile tests concluded that alongside the various short range Scuds it sent over the Sea of Japan, Pyongyang also launched a Taeopodong-2 multi-stage long range missile capable of reaching Alaska.
The fact that he ordered deep cuts in the US missile defense budget as North Korea tested a long-range missile and a nuclear bomb, and that he has maintained these cuts despite North Korea's announced plan to launch a missile against the US on July 4 has gone largely unreported.
As Schnurr relates, Israel's decision to contend with the spiraling missile threat it faces by ignoring it extends to short-range missile threats as well.
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Similarly, America's renewed interest in missile defences is a response to the spread of longer-range missile technology, done chiefly by China, Russia and North Korea.
Seoul also has been bracing for a possible missile test by North Korea since the isolated state moved a medium-range missile to its east coast last week.
He dismissed reports in Japanese media that the missile could be a KN-08, which is believed to be a long-range missile that if operable could hit the United States.
North Korea makes a fist by firing a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan.
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