North Korean ICBM Technology Still Falls Short, Top General Says
- Reentry vehicle, nuke warhead, guidance issues unproven: Selva
- Trump threatened ‘fire and fury’ if North Korea targets U.S.
President Trump Says Talk With North Korea Is Done
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While North Korea is maintaining its torrid pace of weapons tests, there are at least three key hurdles Kim Jong Un’s regime still needs to overcome before it can field a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile capable of threatening the U.S. mainland.
The threat from Pyongyang is growing, but it isn’t yet imminent, according to General Paul Selva, the No. 2 U.S. military official. Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, offered his thoughts in a statement to Bloomberg before North Korea launched an intermediate-range missile early Tuesday local time over Japan.