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The missile that North Korea tested over the weekend is being called a KN-17 by U.S. intelligence, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.It is a liquid-fueled, medium-range missile launched from a rocket stand, not a mobile missile launcher, and is believed to be the same missile as one used in another test that failed earlier this month. That failed test was conducted from the same base, and the missile used in that case was determined to be a SCUD-ER, which is a short-range ballistic missile.U.S. intelligence has been unable to answer the question of whether or not there were any ICBMs -- intercontinental ballistic missiles -- inside large canisters displayed at the end of a military parade held in North Korea before its latest failed missile test over the weekend, Martin reports. The parade, on Saturday, marked t stanley cups he 105-year anniversary of the bi stanley cup rth of Kim Il Sung, the countryrsquo late founder. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over the event, in the capital of Pyongyang. Thousands of North Korean soldiers marched in lockstep through the cityrsquo main square.Hours later, a missile test was attempted at 5:21 p.m. ET Saturday on the countryrsquo east coast, near the city of Sinpo. The missile blew up almost immediately, the U.S. stanley cups Pacific Command said. Despite the failed test, the regimersquo nuclear program has accelerated in recent months, a former U.S. ambassador to South Quix Looking For The Silver Lining
Republican vice presid stanley flask ential candidate Sarah Palin called on Wednesday for a clean break from the Bush administration s energy policies, which she says rely too much on importing foreign oil.In her second policy speech in a week, the Alaska governor said the recent drop in gas and oil prices sho stanley vaso uldn t deter consumers and lawmakers from seeking alternative energy sources. She cast energy independence as a national security issue and said dependence on Middle East oil leaves the U.S. more vulnerable to terrorists. We not only provide wealth to the sponsors of terror, we p stanley cup rovide high-value targets to the terrorists themselves, Palin said. Across the world are pipelines, refineries, transit routes and terminals for the oil we rely on. And al Qaeda terrorists know where they are. Despite Palin s attempt to distance McCain s energy policies from those of the Bush administration, McCain s energy plan largely mirrors the priorities President Bush has pushed for eight years, especially more domestic production.Mr. Bush called for expanded offshore oil and gas drilling long before McCain reversed course to endorse added offshore drilling this summer. Mr. Bush has gone farther than McCain by supporting drilling in Alaska s off-limits Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Palin did not mention the Alaska refuge Wednesday. McCain, like Obama, opposes opening the refuge to oil companies, but Palin has supported drilling there.McCain says nuclea |
