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The Nukes We Need: Adapting our arsenal to today.

National Review

| March 25, 2002 | LOWRY, RICHARD | COPYRIGHT 2002 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

When President Bush peered across the DMZ into North Korea recently, the most important things to see were out of sight. The North Koreans have two, related proficiencies: weapons production and tunneling. They built an underground city to conceal work on the No Dong ballistic missile, tested in 1993. In 1998, a tunnel complex big enough to house a plutonium production plant was discovered near a nuclear research center supposedly shut down under the 1994 U.S.-North Korean Agreed Framework. Meanwhile, the North Korea forward staging areas near the DMZ have more than 4,000 tunnels and bunkers.

The North Koreans may specialize mainly in backwardness, but in this ...

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