21.   The United States and Israel say Iran has upgraded its missile capability with Chinese, Russian and North Korean help.

22.   The two nations are currently eying each others missile capability with deep nuclear suspicion.

23.   Under U.N. resolutions, sanctions cannot be lifted until U.N. inspectors report that Iraq has dismantled its biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs and long-range missile capability.

24.   He cited the deployment of upgraded Patriot missiles to South Korea and Japan and the technical assistance agreement to provide Taiwan with theater missile defense capability.

25.   If the foreign parts were put together with Iraqi hardware, the Iraqis could reconstitute a long-range missile capability.

26.   Iran is boosting its naval power with submarines and developing new missile capabilities that raise concern about its aims in the region, a British admiral said Wednesday.

27.   Rabin charged that North Korea has shipped defense technology and medium-range Scud missiles, helping Iran and Syria upgrade their missile development capability.

28.   The agency also should develop and test technologies to provide early missile defense capabilities if necessary, or improve existing capabilities, it said.