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The adoption of terrorist methods-indiscriminate attacks that injure both military and civilian populations , violent rhetoric and usage of illegal means to secure funds and materials-mean that terrorist organisations exist outside of normative society and their ways and means oppose the very essence of tolerance and disregard the concept of peaceful resolution of differences . Subsequent diplomatic initiatives - - recovering the remains of American military personnel missing since the Korean War , removing Korea from the list of terrorist nations , opening liaison offices , negotiating limits on the production and sale of North Korean missiles - - have been predicated - - like the Agreed Framework itself - - on the assumptions that the North was prepared to engage in significant domestic reform efforts and that " time is on our side . " Ranking Hizballah higher than al-Qaeda on the list of terrorist organizations reflects the deep antipathy for the Lebanese organization among many officials in the Bush administration , some of whom served under President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and harbor bitter memories of the Marine barracks bombing in October 1983 in which 241 American personnel were killed . The fundamentalist-led regime is portrayed as the victim of terrorist attacks in one-sided coverage , while the regime 's brutal methods go mostly unmentioned . Today , the protection of national territory has a new dimension in the face of terrorist attacks , and in the case of the US , by the programme for missile defence . Afghanistan dealt with the tip of the iceberg of terrorist threats .