WW3 Buildup: CIA chief warns North Korea will be able to nuke U.S. within ‘months’

WW3 Buildup: CIA chief warns North Korea will be able to nuke U.S. within ‘months’

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RUMORS OF WAR: North Korea could acquire the ability to deliver a nuclear weapon to the United States within “months,” a top American spy official said Thursday. “It is the case that they are close enough now in their capabilities that from a U.S. policy perspective, we ought to behave as if we are on the cusp of them achieving that objective,” Pompeo said during a question-and-answer session hosted by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.


“When you’re now talking about months, our capacity to understand that at the detailed level is in some sense irrelevant,” he said. “Whether it happens on Tuesday or a month from Tuesday, we are at a time where the president has concluded that we need a global effort to ensure that Kim Jong Un doesn’t have that capacity.” Pompeo’s artful assessment didn’t disguise the urgency of the North Korea nuclear threat, as he allowed that “intelligence is imperfect” but emphasized that every nuclear weapon or ballistic missile test heightens the danger posed by the regime. READ MORE

Putin Warns Not to Back Kim Jong Un Into a Corner

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Thursday that North Korea must not be “backed into a corner” and urged dialogue to end its nuclear standoff with the U.S. Tensions have increased between Pyongyang and Washington in recent weeks, with President Donald Trump promising in August that North Korea would be met with “fire and fury” if it threatens the U.S. and calling Kim Jong Un, the North’s leader, “rocket man” in a speech at the U.N. last month.  Putin did not mention the U.S.
specifically on Thursday, but warned of the growing possibility of conflict and pointed out that North Korea is a “sovereign country.” “Problems should be solved in dialogue, and North Korea should not be backed into a corner,” Putin said in a speech to the elite of Russia’s foreign policy establishment and foreign guests at a meeting organized by the Valdai Discussion Club near the Black Sea resort of Sochi. A series of missile and nuclear tests has rattled North Korea’s neighbors. The U.S. has responded with sanctions. READ MORE