And also, have we had any concrete indications of how the Burmese military is moving away from North Korea?
North Korea would be attempting to demonstrate that it was capable of striking the U.S., but many U.S. defense officials are highly skeptical that North Korea has a missile capable of reaching Hawaii, which is more than 4, 500 miles away from North Korea.
American sanctions against the bank will continue to scare other banks around the world away from doing business with North Korea.
He plans to press Beijing to more aggressively muscle North Korea away from its military and nuclear threats, senior U.S. officials said.
North Korea walked away from the so-called six-party talks in 2009 after it was penalized for its last rocket launch.
Six-nation disarmament negotiations aimed at offering North Korea much-needed food and fuel in return for dismantling its nuclear program have been stalled since North Korea walked away from the discussion following its 2009 rocket launch.
North Korea even walked away from the so-called six-party denuclearization talks, but Washington did not seem to care.
Analysts say North Korea is years away from being able to accurately deliver a nuclear weapon atop a long-range missile.
UN, or on keeping American troops in the Balkans or persuading North Korea to step away from the nuclear edge?
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He says North Korea is years away from developing a nuclear warhead that would be small, light and heat-resistant enough to launch on a missile.
How likely is it that we will ever have the kind of air-tight inspection regime that prevents a hermit kingdom like North Korea from squirreling away a few fission devices?
But allowing North Korea to slip away from the commitment to abandon nuclear weapons would set a bad precedent for international nonproliferation efforts and could trigger a nuclear arms race in Northeast Asia a prospect that would alarm China too.
Hence the South would shrink away from any actions which might destabilize or provoke North Korea - such as truly efficient sanctions.
Even so, they stressed North Korea could be years away from having a credible nuclear weapon that it could launch at the United States.
If the analysis is correct, it puts North Korea just one step away from one of the Bush administration's red lines: the export of weapons-useable material itself.
Although North Korea is many years away from developing an effective inter-continental ballistic missile with nuclear capability, the mood in Washington is that the US needs to stay ahead of the threat posed by an increasingly belligerent regime in Pyongyang, he adds.
Most experts believe North Korea is still some years away from being able to hit America, although its shorter-range missiles could already threaten its neighbors.
Officials and media reports earlier this month said North Korea had moved the Musudan missiles away from the firing locations.
With luck, the leadership will pivot away from nuclear posturing toward economic reform, the main thing that the people of North Korea really need.
Yet as commander-in-chief, he bears responsibility for the military shortcomings if, as some suspect, North Korea torpedoed the Cheonan from a semi-submersible vessel and got away with it.
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