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US Has 'Significant' Deterrent Capability Against North Korea: Rice

Washington (AFP) May 03, 2005

The United States has "significant deterrent capability" to thwart North Korea's nuclear ambitions, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Monday as the White House called a weekend missile test by Pyongyang "provocative."
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"So I don't think there should be any doubt about our ability to deter whatever the North Koreans are up to," she said.
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Rice emphasized "the ability of the United States to deter, both on behalf of itself and on behalf of its allies, North Korean nuclear ambitions or gains on the (Korean) peninsula."

The United States has a pact with its allies Japan and South Korea to defend them if they come under threat from North Korea, and it has military facilities and troops stationed in the two countries.
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