by Jim Mannion
AFP June 22, 2006 WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney rebuffed a call for a pre-emptive missile strike to knock out a long-range missile that North Korea has been preparing for launch.
Former defense secretary William Perry urged the United States to strike the North Korean launch site if Pyongyang does not take steps to stop the launch, insisting Washington act rather than allow a "mortal threat" to develop. "I think, at this stage, we are addressing the issue in the proper fashion," Cheney said in an interview with CNN television. Comment: Cheney doesn't want a pre-emptive strike on North Korea?! Geez, Dick must be getting flaccid in his old age.
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20/06/2006
RIA Novosti MOSCOW - A Russian presidential aide said Tuesday the "imminent" launch of a North Korean ballistic missile was largely a matter of psychology.
It is widely believed that Pyongyang is stepping up preparations to fire the Taepodong-2, a two-stage ballistic missile with a range of up to 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) that could in theory deliver a warhead to Alaska, USA. "Let them launch it first and then we will see whether it will fly, where it will fly, and whether it can reach its target in the first place," Igor Shuvalov said. Last month, a U.S. space satellite spotted a booster rocket and several fuel tanks on a launch pad in the east of the communist country, which has claimed it already has a nuclear capability. According to regional media reports, the missile could be fired at any moment. Pyongyang last tested a long-range missile in 1998, when it fired the Taepodong-1 missile, with a range of 2,000km (1240 miles), over Japan. The missile landed in the Pacific Ocean, causing a shock in Tokyo. |
Created: 23.06.2006 09:54 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:02 MSK
MosNews The United States and the European Union have voiced concern over recent developments in Russia, in their final declaration published after a summit held in Vienna this week, the AFP news agency reported.
The U.S. and EU administrations, meeting less than a month before a G8 meeting of global powers which Russia will host in St. Petersburg, criticized what they said was a degradation of civil liberties in Russia. |
Associated Press
NY Times BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants went on a hunger strike Wednesday to protest the shooting death of an attorney on the ousted Iraqi leader's defense team, their chief lawyer said - the third such killing in the 8-month-old trial. |
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