It is not thought to have a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
Yesterday, Iraq announced that it had successfully launched a missile capable of lofting a satellite into space.
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South Korean officials have also said the North is poised to test-fire a medium-range missile capable of reaching the American territory of Guam.
This week, India announced it will soon fire a new missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads across much of Asia and the Middle East.
Among those items reportedly slated for decontrol are sensors capable of testing missile silos, high-speed microprocessors with a wide variety of applications for military systems, solid and liquid rocket motors and spacecraft, advanced lasers, electronic navigation equipment, and sophisticated machine tools.
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.
That is the site in Moorestown, New Jersey where the Navy tests the radars for its Aegis combat system, the most capable air- and missile-defense system in the world.
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Raytheon will have to compete with other companies for the right to build the more capable later versions of the Standard Missile, including Aegis integrator Lockheed Martin.
But a nuclear warhead would have to be small enough to fit onto, say, a Nodong missile - and it would have to be capable of withstanding the buffeting and other forces exerted on it during flight.
Each U.S. SSBN is capable of carrying 24 Trident missiles with up to eight warheads per missile.
President Bush confirms that "any successor to the D5 system should be compatible, or capable of being made compatible with, the launch system for the D5 missile, which you will be installing into your new submarines".
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Yet, even for Israelis, the most troubling recent development in missile proliferation was the news on August 31st that North Korea had launched a three-stage missile, known as the Taepo Dong, which is apparently capable of reaching the western fringes of Alaska.
Whether or not this idea materialises, a regional anti-missile network of sorts is likely to emerge, as Arrow's sensors will probably be made capable of swapping data with nearby American ships, bases and spacecraft.
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