| 1. | Russia has also warned against moving defensive missiles to Turkey's border with Syria.
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| 2. | The technology of limited defensive missile shields has not yet been reliably perfected.
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| 3. | The Patriots are defensive missiles intended to intercept incoming targets.
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| 4. | Pyongyang has said it will not negotiate on its sovereign right to develop defensive missiles.
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| 5. | Raytheon, maker of the Patriot defensive missile, has long been a manufacturer of antimissile systems.
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| 6. | That treaty prohibits the use of long-range defensive missiles.
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| 7. | Pyongyang, however, has said it will not negotiate on its sovereign right to develop defensive missiles.
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| 8. | That's the treaty to which Putin said Friday deployment of a defensive missile system would violate.
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| 9. | The 700-pound defensive missile is designed to slam into incoming missiles and destroy them on impact.
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| 10. | Doing so would require changes in the 1972 treaty with Moscow that bans most long-range defensive missiles.
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