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United States will spend US$5.8 bln on missile defense system.
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| Wednesday, July 23, 2014 12:09 PM | |||
| United States will spend US$5.8 bln on missile defense system | |||
The
United States plans to spend about US$5.8 billion over the next five years
on a missile defense program designed to intercept incoming warheads from
countries like North Korea, according to the Congressional Budget Office. |
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Successful
flight test of a GMD ground-based interceptor |
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In a report made public Tuesday,
the budget office provided the historical and future budgets for the
Missile Defense Agency's Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program,
a missile defense system aimed at fending off ballistic missile threats
from North Korea and Iran. North Korea's missile program has been a key security concern for the U.S., along with Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. Last year, the North demonstrated its intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities by succeeding in putting a satellite into orbit aboard a long-range rocket. The North also carried out three nuclear tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013. Experts say, however, that the communist nation is not believed to have mastered the technology to make nuclear warheads small enough to fit on a missile. |
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