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WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- CIA Director Porter Goss says North Korea's nuclear arsenal has grown since President George Bush called it part of an "axis of evil" in 2002, CNN reports.
In testimony before the U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee, Goss said North Korea "continues to develop, produce, deploy and sell ballistic missiles of increasing range, augmenting Pyongyang's large operational force of Scud and No Dong class missiles."
In January 2002, Bush referred to intelligence in his State of the Union address that North Korea had produced enough plutonium for one or two nuclear weapons.
"Our assessment is they have a greater capability than that assessment," Goss said Wednesday, adding North Korea is looking for new customers for its ballistic-missile technology now that "traditional customers" such as Libya have stopped trading with North Korea.
Six-country talks hosted by China aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear program stalled in September 2004, and North Korea announced last Thursday it had no intention of returning to the negotiating table.
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