North Korea's Kim Jong Un: From punchline to world menace
Coupled with recent tests, nuclear capability, an increasingly hostile tone and vexing unpredictability, Kim's North Korea has become the world's diplomatic dilemma.
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“We can expect an [intercontinental ballistic missile] test this year with full capability within the next few years,” former CIA official Bruce Klingner told Fox News earlier this month.
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“North Korea almost certainly already has the ability to target South Korea and Japan, and U.S. forces based in both countries, with nuclear weapons carried on the No Dong medium-range ballistic missiles," former CIA Deputy Division Chief for Korea Bruce Klingner told Fox News. "After missile test launches last year, Pyongyang declared that they were practicing nuclear air-burst attacks on South Korea.”
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Technology exists now for stopping a North Korean missile launch Herman wrote. "It’s called boost-phase intercept, or BPI, and the U.S. and Japan have the means to deploy it."