Mike Pompeo says Pyongyang is a few months away from having the ability to hit the US with a nuclear missileCIA director Mike Pompeo has said North Korea is a few months away from perfecting its nuclear weapons capabilities. Pompeo said intelligence on North Korea was imperfect and “when you’re now talking about months, our capacity to understand that at a detailed level is in some sense irrelevant”, he said. “We are at a time where the president has concluded that we need a global effort to ensure Kim Jong-un doesn’t have that capacity,” Pompeo told the forum, organised by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies thinktank. North Korea has accelerated its weapons tests. Dire threats traded by Trump and Kim have further stoked fears of war.

Source: The Guardian October 20, 2017 00:45 UTC