Weldon: North Koreans Open To Nonproliferation Overtures

By Thomas Duffy / June 4, 2003 at 5:00 AM
Upon his return from a trip leading a congressional delegation to North Korea, Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) said yesterday that government officials there did not balk at the prospect of moving toward compliance with several international agreements aimed at stemming the flow of ballistic missile technologies around the world. The U.S. intelligence community considers North Korea the greatest ballistic missile threat to the United States. Last December, President Bush approved plans to field a limited national missile defense system by...

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