CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: CIA Director George Tenet is the highest official to publicly say North Korea can hit the United States with a nuclear missile. An unclassified CIA document from December of 2001 says one type of nuke may be able to hit Alaska, Hawaii and the West Coast. Tenet was questioned at a Capitol Hill hearing -- listen.</s>SEN. EVAN BAYH (D), INDIANA: They've fired missiles over Japan. What is the likelihood that they currently have a missile capable of hitting the West Coast of the United States?</s>GEORGE TENET, CIA DIRECTOR: I think the declassified answer is yes, they can do that.</s>COSTELLO: Tenet's comment came as the International Atomic Energy Agency was voting to cite Pyongyang for defying U.N. nuclear safeguards. The nuclear watchdog group is sending the issue to the U.N. Security Council. Our Seoul bureau chief, Sohn Jie-Ae has more for you.</s>SOHN JIE-AE, CNN SEOUL BUREAU CHIEF: South Korea's Foreign Ministry called the IAEA's moves to refer the North Korean nuclear matter to the U.N. Security Council appropriate, since North Korea did not meet its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but it called upon North Korea to use what it called this window of opportunity to get a diplomatic resolution to the issue. Neighboring Japan also called upon North Korea to reopen dialogue with the outside world, but cautioned against imposing immediate sanctions against North Korea, a move the Pyongyang government once said would be considered tantamount to an act of war. Now, against these diplomatic calls, there has been a U.S. intelligence report that said North Korea probably has one or two nuclear weapons and a missile capable of reaching the United States. This is an especially sensitive issue for Japan, since North Korea test-fired a missile over its territory in 1998. Sohn Jie-Ae, CNN, Seoul.
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