[…] U.S. and Japanese news agencies had reported that North Korea appeared to be reassembling its Yongbyon facility. On August 26, North Korean officials threatened to restore the plutonium processing facility if the United States did not remove the country from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List. McCormack, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs, said the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency have inspectors at the Yongbyon facility now and are monitoring North Korean actions.

The Declaration affirms the commitment of the United States to the security of Poland and of any U.S. facilities located on the territory of Poland. The Declaration underscores that both nations face a growing threat from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and associated delivery systems.

[…] The cornerstone of the U.S.-Poland security relationship is the solidarity embodied in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which provides that an armed attack against one NATO country shall be considered an armed attack against them all.

[…] The media often trumpet the dispatch of arms control experts to a country of concern. But what these experts do often remains largely invisible. Verification experts were sent into Iraq, for example, to search for dangers. In June 2008, U.S. and Iraqi experts sent to Canada the last bit of concentrated natural uranium accumulated during Saddam Hussein’s reign at the country’s main nuclear complex in Tuwaitha.

[…] Rice spoke for the first time July 21 about a meeting held two days earlier in Geneva between Iranian representatives and representatives from the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia. William Burns, under secretary of state for political affairs, represented the United States at that meeting, Rice said, and it should indicate just how seriously the United States is taking this situation.

[…] Stephen Mathias, head of the U.S. delegation joining over 100 other countries in Geneva July 7-25, said the United States shares other countries' concerns about the unintended harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure caused by the use of cluster munitions -- explosives launched by aircraft or ground-based artillery that discharge smaller bombs over an area. Such munitions can have a devastating effect on civilians who come in contact with bombs that fail to explode upon impact.

[…] “Gli istituti finanziari, le grandi aziende europee e le multinazionali stanno rapidamente prendendo le distanze dall’Iran, che è ormai sempre più isolato nel contesto internazionale.” Lo ha affermato il Sottosegretario del Tesoro americano con delega sul terrorismo e l’intelligence finanziaria, Stuart A. Levey, durante una conferenza stampa tenutasi martedì 15 luglio all’ambasciata USA di Roma.

[…] And I think the last time he was here was for an intercept test that was conducted. But today he is back to talk to you about much of the success that has been achieved over the past several months and to also indicate some of the way forward in which the Missile Defense Agency is progressing with our missile defense capability. So General, again, thank you for joining us and for bringing us up to speed. And let me turn it over to you.

[…] On July 8, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg signed in Prague the Agreement Between the United States and the Czech Republic on Establishing a United States Ballistic Missile Defense Radar Site in the Czech Republic.

[…] Today the Department of Defense released a newly approved U.S. cluster munitions policy. The United States believes that the new policy will provide better protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure following a conflict, while allowing for the retention of a legitimate and useful weapon.