Russia, a vehement critic of American missile-defence plans, says these would violate the ABM treaty.Mr Kim's officials were quick to explain that the joint statement did not signal South Korea's opposition to missile defence.
America's withdrawal from the ABM treaty is about to take place.
Since Russia matters to America because of its nuclear weapons, its ties with the axis of evil countries and its large energy reserves, America was willing to pay a price for Mr Putin's acquiescence in scrapping the ABM treaty.
Last year, at the Asian-run Stockwell Food and Wine store, a five-year-old girl, Thusa Kamaleswaran, was shot and paralysed in a botched attack by the Brixton-based GAS gang (which stands for Guns and Shanks, or knives) on the Stockwell-based ABM gang (All 'Bout Money).
With traditional composites, the person was correctly identified about 4% of the time; the figure rose to 25% with EvoFIT images.Next year ABM will perform in-house evaluations of the system and will then team up with police forces for further trials.
He did not object to the second stage of NATO enlargement that took in the Baltic states, shut down Soviet-era military installations in Cuba and Vietnam, and "rolled with the punch" when America decided to withdraw from the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty, the symbol of cold war détente.
For America simply to tear up the ABM treaty would destroy hopes for further cuts in Russia's nuclear arsenal.
Russia's Duma threatens to tear up the Start-2 arms-cutting treaty it belatedly ratified in April if America abandons its ABM vows.
Though America and Russia can probably agree that the ABM treaty is worth preserving, Russia needs to accept that its preservation may involve its modification.
If subsequent talks with Russia produced no agreement, both countries would have the right they have always had to withdraw from the ABM treaty and defend themselves as they see fit.Far better, though, that they should look to their defences in co-operation, rather than in confrontation.
Mr Putin knows that, though Mr Clinton's plans offend the letter of the ABM treaty, not its spirit, many other Americans would like much more ambitious, treaty-busting alternatives.
