Global Security Threat Assessment News

ARRA Editor: We are not ignoring the Russia aggression against Georgia as important, but that news is being reported by most traditional news network, whereas the following may are not on the front burner for the news but worth noting:
NTI - Global Security News: North Korea Rejects Nuclear Verification Demands - North Korea has rejected components of a U.S. plan to verify the Stalinist state’s claim regarding its nuclear programs, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported today. An agreed verification plan would be the next step in carrying out the 2007 deal in which Pyongyang pledged to give up its nuclear program in exchange for economic, security and diplomatic benefits. North Korea would likely achieve its goal of being removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism after accepting a plan, but Washington says any program must cover the regime’s suspected uranium enrichment and nuclear proliferation operations alongside its known plutonium program . . . Full Story

Al-Qaeda Grows in Strength, U.S. Says - Al-Qaeda’s ability to strike the United States has grown in the past year and the organization has enlisted and prepared “dozens” of operatives to infiltrate Western nations to conduct possible attacks, a high-level U.S. terrorism expert said yesterday . . . Full Story

U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Five Iranian Entities - The U.S. Treasury Department yesterday announced new restrictions on business with five Iranian groups said to be connected to the Middle Eastern state’s nuclear and missile activities, Agence France-Presse reported . . . Full Story

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