North Korea is a bigger missile threat than Russia, China, or Iran: U.S. official

February 24, 2021

NK News:

 

Months after North Korea rolled out its largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile for the world to see, a top U.S. military officer said that he’s treating North Korea as a greater missile threat than other American adversaries.

On Tuesday, Gen. John Hyten — the second-highest-ranking military officer in all of the United States — said that Washington’s missile defense program is “clearly focused” on the DPRK.

“Our national missile defense capability is clearly focused on North Korea right now, not on China, Russia and Iran,” he said during a webinar hosted by the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS). “North Korea is continuing to move forward in their capabilities, which means on the defensive side, we have to continue to move forward as well.”

Hyten, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman, also urged the United States to continue working on its ability to shoot down a North Korean long-range missile with a “next generation interceptor.”

“There’s a chance they would actually fire it at us,” he said. “And therefore we better have a way to defeat that”…

 

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