neutralny.nick
13.02.03, 04:43
Południowa Korea najprawdopodobniej ma przynajmniej dwie nuklearne głowice
które mogą dosięgnąć zachodnie wybrzeże USA.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. intelligence officials said on Wednesday
North Korea (news - web sites) had one or two nuclear weapons and a missile
that could carry one to the West Coast of the United States.
"They probably have one or two plutonium-based devices today," CIA (news -
web sites) Director George Tenet told a Senate Armed Services Committee
(news - web sites) hearing. "I think one or two is a very good judgment," he
said, confirming earlier U.S. intelligence estimates. Asked if North Korea
had a missile that could hit the U.S. West Coast, Tenet replied: "Yes they
could do that."
After the hearing, Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense
Intelligence Agency, said North Korea had a three-stage Taepodong 2 missile
that could reach the West Coast of the United States. "It has not been
tested," he said.
Tensions have risen sharply between the reclusive communist state and the
United States after the discovery last year that North Korea had secretly
pursued a nuclear weapons program in violation of a 1994 agreement.
Since December, North Korea expelled international nuclear inspectors and
withdrew from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Earlier on Wednesday the
governing board of the U.N. nuclear watchdog passed a resolution declaring
North Korea in breach of U.N. nuclear safeguards and sent the issue to the
U.N. Security Council.
