YONHAP News:
WASHINGTON, July 10 (Yonhap) — Former U.S. Forces Korea Commander Curtis Scaparrotti has expressed serious concern about North Korea’s missile capabilities after the communist nation carried out the latest test of its submarine-launched ballistic missile.
“Kim Jong-un and his regime continues to test and work on their ballistic missile capability, and with every launch, they’re getting better and they’re working out their problems,” Scaparrotti, now NATO’s supreme allied commander in Europe, told reporters at the NATO Summit in Warsaw on Saturday.
“And they are doing it with a missile now, the Musudan variant, that has regional range and the very same things that he learns is going to be transferred to his intercontinental ballistic missile capability, so it’s a serious threat,” he said, according to video footage of his remarks.
Asked if he has concerns about the North’s capability to strike the mainland U.S., Scaparrotti said, “I do.”
“As a commander, I have to be concerned about that. I’ve got to assume he’s got the capability to do it,” he said.
