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CIA called the main missile enemies of the United States: Russia, China, North Korea
| [10.09.1999, 16:01:35] Based on materials from Lenta.ru
The enemy N1 is still Russia, which has about 1000 intercontinental ballistic missiles. "The threat from Russia still remains the most obvious and deadly hazardous, and to a much greater extent than the threat from China, much exceeding the potential threat from other countries in its scale," the CIA report is indicated. China, then, according to the CIA, is a “threat of number 2” - it already has about 20 long -range missiles that can reach the United States. Already this year, China has experienced a DF -31 mobile deployment system with a radius of an action of 8000 kilometers - these missiles will be aimed at Russia and Asian countries. By 2015, China will have dozens of missiles aimed at the United States, including more modern nuclear warheads created on the basis of technologies stolen from the United States. Further, North Korea and Iran are in the list of enemies of America: the CIA report, in the next fifteen years, these countries will be able to create missiles that can strike in the United States. Depending on the warheads - nuclear, chemical or biological - destructive power will be different, but in any case we are talking about weapons of mass destruction that can kill millions of Americans. According to the assessment of the American special services, Iran will be able to test a high -range missiles in the next 10 years and, in the future, strike at individual regions of the United States, however, the opinions of experts diverge with respect to a more accurate assessment of when such tests are carried out. As for Iraq, there is a probability that by 2015 he will also be able to create missiles that can reach the United States, however, as experts note, everything will depend on how other countries will “help” Iraq. The CIA is also preoccupied with "the desire of North Korea to trade in missiles of the middle radius of action." The spread of these missiles, in which the "guilty" is mainly North Korea, "created a serious and growing threat to American troops, interests, allies, significantly undermined the strategic balance of Asia and the Middle East," the report emphasizes. The document also indicates the possibility of a new threat in these regions in connection with the recent tests of missiles in India and Pakistan. As ITAR-TASS notes, the CIA report is clearly “timed to” to Russian-American consultations on the issue of modifying an APC agreement and creating a national missile defense system. References to the absence of a national missile defense system in the United States, prohibited by the current agreement on the pro, it seems that they are aimed at justifying calls to a serious change in this fundamental document.
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The US Central Intelligence Department published a special report on Thursday with a list of countries that seriously threaten the United States with their missile potential or will threaten in the near future.
