TITLE

North Korea and Iraq: Trumped-Up Threats?

AUTHOR(S)
Hosenball, Mark
PUB. DATE
July 2006
SOURCE
Newsweek;7/3/2006, Vol. 148 Issue 1/2, p11
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
This article discusses the terror threat posed by North Korea and Iraq against the United States. While once thought to be strong threat to U.S. national security, intelligence reports indicate that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il does not in fact have a nuclear device, nor do they have the capability to build one. Revelations regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have followed a similar path, with intelligence reporting that Iraq has no such weapons.
ACCESSION #
21366250

Tags: NUCLEAR weapons;  WEAPONS of mass destruction;  KIM Jong-il, 1941-2011;  NATIONAL security -- United States;  NATIONAL security

 

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