After joining ABC News, Woodruff reported from Kosovo, Pakistan, North Korea and Iraq.
That is why governments in countries with cultures as diverse as the former Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea and Iraq all share one thing -- hate.
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North Korea and Iraq all share one thing hate.
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For more than six years, during many pleasant sessions at Lake Geneva, some 50 nations including such stalwart arms control violators as North Korea and Iraq have been drafting a treaty that would allegedly make an existing ban on biological weapons verifiable and enforceable.
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For more than six years, during many pleasant sessions at Lake Geneva, some 50 nations -- including such stalwart arms control violators as North Korea and Iraq -- have been drafting a treaty that would allegedly make an existing ban on biological weapons verifiable and enforceable.
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Opinions in America's intelligence community are divided, but a recent CIA-sponsored national intelligence assessment again predicted (over State Department dissent, it was said) that before 2015, Iran, along with North Korea and possibly Iraq, could have missiles capable of hitting the United States.
Specifically, this would mean adapting the Navy's AEGIS fleet air defense system as quickly as possible to permit it to intercept long-range missiles, especially in the boost or ascent phase where geography permits (as in the case, for example, of North Korea and perhaps Iraq or Iran).
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North Korea has bristled from the United States' tougher stance on what it calls an "axis of evil, " comprised of North Korea, Iran and Iraq.
In his speech, Bush said that states such as North Korea, Iraq and Iran formed an "axis of evil" against which the West must guard itself.
But Washington insists the missile defence system would be to protect against what it refers to as "rogue nations" such as North Korea, Iran and Iraq -- but not its former Cold War rivals.
This treaty will come into force -- and be binding upon the U.S., assuming its ratification -- once 65 of the world's nations have ratified it, even if dangerous states like Libya, North Korea, Syria and Iraq decline to become parties to the convention.
In 1998 the Rumsfeld Commission noted that countries like North Korea, Iran and Iraq "would be able to inflict major destruction on the United States within about five years of a decision to acquire the capability, " adding that for much of the time America might not know that such a decision had been taken.
If the objective is to provide a real defense against the kinds of ballistic missile threats the United States is likely to face in the future from rogue states like North Korea, Iran and Iraq, to say nothing of Communist China, the sort of exceedingly limited anti-missile system permitted by the "Grand Compromise" would be clearly inadequate.
Mr Putin jets around the world to visit former Soviet allies such as Cuba, Libya, Vietnam and North Korea, and cultivates Iran and Iraq.
It did, however, put them and the world more generally on notice: Iraq, North Korea and Iran are pariah states.
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It did, however, put them -- and the world more generally -- on notice: Iraq, North Korea and Iran are pariah states.
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But although his phrase was over-simplified and implied a unity of behaviour and purpose between Iraq, Iran and North Korea that does not exist, he was nevertheless putting his finger on a real issue, one that is separate from the fight against terrorism.
North Korea, Libya, China and Iraq have not joined the treaty.
With political pressure building after Mr Kay's remarks, Mr Bush reluctantly agreed to an independent probe into pre-war intelligence, though the commission will cover Libya, North Korea and Iran as well as Iraq, and will not report back until 2005 well after the presidential election.
Such reckless concessions give rise to the possibility that the United States may, in due course, find itself faced with a bizarre and dangerous situation: Rogue nations like Iraq, Libya and North Korea with known chemical warfare programs may legally keep, indeed expand, their stockpiles of such weapons should they chose not to join the CWC.
The U.N. has also been involved in addressing recent tensions with Iraq and North Korea.
Yet the treaty prevents the United States from building adequate defenses against the likes of Iran, Iraq and North Korea.
Even if these countries do join, they can violate the treaty--as Iraq and North Korea have done with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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This is the same Iran that President Bush once dubbed as part of "an axis of evil" that included Iraq and North Korea.
Many dangerous countries such as Libya, Syria, Iraq and North Korea, have not signed the CWC and would not be deterred by pieces of paper.
Both Iraq and North Korea have long flagrantly violated their non-nuclear promises under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and have plenty of other nasty weapons too.
There is another sort of difference between Iraq and North Korea.
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