1 threat that the United States faces. 1 threat, but labeled Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and terrorist groups as “key challenges” that the United States faces. Several senior defense officials aside from Mattis have declared Russia the top threat the United States faces in the past few years, including Dunford. “It is incumbent upon us to assume that North Korea today can range the United States with an ICBM carrying a nuclear warhead,” he said. “But we can buy the time right now.”Dunford, asked about the threat, said the United States balances its missile-defense systems with other ways to counter North Korea, including cyberwarfare, Navy weapons and intelligence collection.

Source: Washington Post June 13, 2017 00:44 UTC