North Korea Tests Missiles Despite Warnings
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2006
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.8 | They were missile shots heard round the world. |
| 0:10.9 | What is North Korea up to and why? |
| 0:16.8 | I'm Sarah Terry sitting in for Warren Only, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:25.3 | In the past day, North Korea has fired seven missiles, triggering concern and condemnation around the world. |
| 0:32.2 | How should the United Nations respond? What will China, North Korea's close ally, do to calm the situation? |
| 0:38.5 | One of the missiles fired had the capacity to reach the Western United States, but failed. |
| 0:43.4 | How serious is the threat posed by North Korea? |
| 0:46.5 | On reporter's notebook later on, Saturday it was road construction in the state lottery. |
| 0:51.2 | Now, state parks and casinos have also been shut down in New Jersey. What's a state |
| 0:55.9 | to do in the middle of a budget deadlock? First, here's the news. Support for To the Point comes from |
| 1:04.3 | subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio International Program Fund, whose contributors |
| 1:10.5 | include the Ford Foundation |
| 1:12.0 | and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. |
| 1:15.3 | I'm Sarah Terry, sitting in for Warren-only, |
| 1:17.2 | back with To the Point from PRI. |
| 1:19.9 | Today we'll be talking about North Korea |
| 1:21.5 | and the missile test it's been carrying out over the past day. |
| 1:24.9 | What kind of threat does North Korea |
| 1:26.3 | actually pose to its neighbors and to the |
| 1:28.2 | United States? What influence will the United Nations Security Council have on the situation? |
| 1:33.7 | President Bush named North Korea as part of the axis of evil several years ago. How will the United |
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