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Barack Obama: The current existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula…

On the recordJune 23, 2009
The current existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula constitute a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Message to Congress on Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to North Korea

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