41.   More ominously, it has scared the Taiwanese with missile tests and military maneuvers for weeks.

42.   Navy officials say no missile tests were underway at the time of the crash.

43.   North Korea declared a moratorium on its long-range missile tests, and in June, Kim Jong Il and Kim Dae-jung met.

44.   North Korea threatens to escalate tensions in Asia and heighten its own isolation if it goes ahead with another long-range missile test in the next few weeks.

45.   North Korea will respond to the breakdown of the nuclear deal, he says, by restarting its nuclear program and resuming its missile tests.

46.   Officials said that they had not detected any new satellite and that they were reasonably sure that what they had monitored was a missile test.

47.   Ongoing tension between China and Taiwan escalated after China conducted military maneuvers and missile tests near Taiwan earlier this year.

48.   Recent Chinese missile tests near Taiwan were an example of muscle-flexing that could get carried too far.

49.   Political analysts in Taipei painted the missile tests as a ploy to weaken public support for President Lee Teng-hui.

50.   Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced last month that the Pentagon would delay some missile defense tests to avoid upsetting the Russians before the Bush-Putin summit.