http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200303/kt2003030417272311970.htm
   KoreaTimes : NK Missile Warhead Found in Alaska

  "By Ryu Jin
   Staff Reporter

   The warhead of a long-range missile test-fired by North Korea was
   found in the U.S. state of Alaska, a report to the National Assembly
   revealed yesterday.

   ``According to a U.S. document, the last piece of a missile warhead
   fired by North Korea was found in Alaska, former Japanese foreign
   minister Taro Nakayama was quoted as saying in the report.
   ``Washington, as well as Tokyo, has so far underrated Pyongyang's
   missile capabilities.

   The report was the culmination of monthlong activities of the
   Assembly's overseas delegation to five countries over the North
   Korean nuclear crisis. The Assembly dispatched groups of lawmakers to
   the United States, Japan, China, Russia and European Union last month
   to collect information and opinions on the international issue.

   The team sent to Japan, headed by Rep. Kim Hak-won of the United
   Liberal Democrats, reported, ``Nakayama said Washington has come to
   put more emphasis on trilateral cooperation between South Korea, Japan
   and the United States since it recognized that the three countries are
   within the range of North Korean missiles.

   According to the group dispatched to the U.S., American politicians
   had a wide range of opinions over the resolution of the nuclear issue,
   from ``a peaceful resolution to ``military response.

   Doves, such as Rep. Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and
   co-chairman of the Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, called
   for a peaceful settlement of the current confrontation, by offering
   food, energy and other humanitarian aid to the poverty-stricken
   country, while urging the North to give up its nuclear ambitions.

   Rep. Markey also said the North should return to the nuclear
   Nonproliferation Treaty and the U.S. should make a nonaggression pact
   with the communist North.

   Hardliners, however, warned that the North's possession of nuclear
   weapons will instigate a nuclear race in the region, provoking Japan
   to also acquire nuclear weapons. Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, an Illinois
   Republican, said the U.S. might have to bomb the Yongbyon nuclear
   complex should the North try to export its nuclear material to other
   countries.

   Over the controversy concerning the withdrawal of U.S. forces
   stationed here, most American legislators that the parliamentary
   delegation met said U.S. troops should stay on the peninsula as long
   as the Korean people want, the report said.

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