Nuclear Weapons Plants North Korea

The CIA said Thursday that North Korea has begun designing two new ballistic missiles with sufficient range to "put at risk" all of Southeast Asia and parts of the Pacific, but it said the weapons still are in early stages of development. CIA Director R. James Woolsey told a symposium here that the new missiles are intended to travel well beyond the 620-mile radius of the No-Dong missile that Pyongyang shot into the Sea of Japan last year.

The CIA said Thursday that North Korea has begun designing two new ballistic missiles with sufficient range to "put at risk" all of Southeast Asia and parts of the Pacific, but it said the weapons still are in early stages of development. CIA Director R. James Woolsey told a symposium here that the new missiles are intended to travel well beyond the 620-mile radius of the No-Dong missile that Pyongyang shot into the Sea of Japan last year.