What range missile is a Scud considered?

MR. HADLEY: It's probably -- it's a short-range ballistic missile. These went out about 275 miles, something like that. Q Which ones, the first ones? Q And is the Taepong [sic] -- I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with these terms -- MR. HADLEY: That's okay. It's the Taepodong-2. Q Is that considered a long-range missile? MR. HADLEY: Yes, it is considered an intercontinental range missile. It is. Q And that was a failed launch, you said. So what have you learned from all of this? MR. HADLEY: Well, it think what we've learned is something about capabilities, the fact that they can fire Scuds and Nodongs is not a surprise. The Taepodong obviously was a failure -- that tells you something about capabilities. What we really don't have a fix on is, you know, what's the intention of all this, what is the purpose of all this? Because this is clearly something that's in violation, we would say, in violation of the moratorium on missile tests. Certainly, the TD-2, the Taepodong-2 is. This is ...  more