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	<title>FAS Strategic Security Blog &#187; North Korea</title>
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		<title>When the Boomers Went to South Korea</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/10/ssbnrok.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are not many public pictures showing the U.S. ballistic missile submarine visits to South Korea. This one apparently shows the USS John Marshall (SSBN-611) in Chinhae in 1979. The submarine carried 16 Polaris A3 missiles with a total of 48 200-kt warheads. . By Hans M. Kristensen Back in the late-1970s, U.S. nuclear-armed ballistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missile Watch &#8211; February 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Schroeder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missile Watch A publication of the FAS Arms Sales Monitoring Project Vol. 3, Issue 1 February 2010 Editor: Matt Schroeder Contributing Author: Matt Buongiorno Graphics: Alexis Paige Contents: Global Overview Afghanistan: No recent discoveries of shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles in insurgent arms caches Eritrea: UN slaps arms embargo on major missile proliferator Iraq: Fewer public reports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea: FAS Says We Have Nukes!</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/11/dprk.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hans M. Kristensen North Korea&#8217;s news agency &#8211; Korean Central News Agency &#8211; apparently has issued a statement saying that &#8220;The Federation of American Scientists of the United States has confirmed (North) Korea as a nuclear weapon state.&#8221; According to a report in the Korea Herald, the statement said a FAS publication issued in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Estimated Nuclear Weapons Locations 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some 23,300 nuclear weapons are stored at 111 locations around the world (click for map) . By Hans M. Kristensen The world’s approximately 23,300 nuclear weapons are stored at an estimated 111 locations in 14 countries, according to an overview produced by FAS and NRDC. Nearly half of the weapons are operationally deployed with delivery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No U.S. Nukes in South Korea</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/06/koreanukes.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Korea mistakenly believes there are U.S. nuclear weapons in South Korea. By Hans M. Kristensen The North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun reportedly has issued a statement saying the U.S. has 1,000 nuclear weapons in South Korea. In this regional war of rhetoric it is important to at least get one fact right: The United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea’s Nuclear Test: Another Fizzle?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 14:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The North Korean nuclear test on May 25, 2009, was &#8220;heard&#8221; loud and clear around the world despite its apparent limited size. Detection of small, clandestine nuclear tests seems to work. . By Hans M. Kristensen The Korean Central News Agency reportedly has announced that North Korea &#8220;successfully conducted one more underground nuclear test on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea Launches Rocket but Satellite Fails</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/04/north-korea-launches-rocket-but-satellite-fails.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/04/north-korea-launches-rocket-but-satellite-fails.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ioelrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite a world of advice to the contrary, the North Koreans launched their Taepodong-2 or Unha rocket yesterday morning. Recent reports are that the first two stages operated correctly but the third stage failed. Reading between the lines a bit, it might have failed to ignite rather than exploding. This seems to be a replay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea’s Teapodong-2 Unha Missile Launch:  What might we learn?</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/04/north-korea%e2%80%99s-teapodong-2-unha-missile-launch-what-might-we-learn.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ioelrich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-satellite]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indications are that North Korea is moving ahead with its planned launch of a missile with the intent of placing a satellite into orbit. The North Koreans are portraying the launch in purely innocuous, civilian terms even naming the rocket “Unha,” which means “Milky Way” in Korean, to emphasize its space-oriented function. In the West, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Déjà Vu At Carnegie</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ivan Oelrich and Hans M. Kristensen Only one week before Barack Obama is expected to win the presidential election, Defense Secretary Robert Gates made one last pitch for the Bush administration&#8217;s nuclear policy during a speech Tuesday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. What is the opposite of visionary?  Whatever, that’s the word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House Guidance Led to New Nuclear Strike Plans Against Proliferators, Document Shows</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2007/11/white_house_guidance_led_to_ne.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. nuclear war plan that entered into effect in March 2003 included new executable strike options against regional states seeking weapons of mass destruction.(click on image to download PDF-version) By Hans M. Kristensen The 2001 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and White House guidance issued in response to the terrorist attacks against the United States [...]]]></description>
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