“North Korean officials insist that they will not give up nuclear weapons, and North Korea may now be only months away from the capability to strike the United States with nuclear-armed ballistic missiles,” he said. A new US nuclear policy review outlined last week “reaffirms that North Korea’s illicit nuclear program must be completely, verifiably, and irreversibly eliminated, resulting in a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons,” he said. Asked later what the basis was for the assessment that North Korea would soon be able to hit the United States with a nuclear weapon, he said he had “no new information to share”. In November it tested the Hwasong-15, believed to be capable of reaching the continental United States. North Korea is under tightening UN Security Council sanctions for its banned nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Source: bd News24 February 06, 2018 13:41 UTC