Missile programs burrow to evade U.S. eyes in the sky

  • 29/07/1998

A commission appointed by Congress has concluded that North Korea, Iran and other countries are concealing their ballistic missile programs from U.S. spy satellites by using enormous underground laboratories and factories to build and test the weapons. The underground construction is one factor contributing to what the comission described as the "erosion" of the ability of U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor weapons proliferation.