[Breaking News] CIA chief Mike Pompeo: N. Korea could be able to nuke U.S. in "handful of months"
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LONDON -- CIA Director Mike Pompeo warned Monday that North Korea could have a nuclear weapon capable of striking the United States within "a handful of months." But Pompeo lauded his boss President Donald Trump's "language" in confronting the threat and said Kim Jong Un "understands the message" coming from Washington as he never has before."It is also our judgment that our partners who are also at risk from North Korea have now come to understand that it is Kim Jong Un that is presenting this risk," Pompeo told CBS News partner network BBC News in an interview aired Monday evening. "I think that America has done an excellent job -- all of our senior leaders -- of communicating to the world the seriousness with which this threat needs to be undertaken." In the wide-ranging interview, the CIA chief said the Trump administration's stance on North Korea had yielded, "a seriousness and a progress" in dealing with the threat from Pyongyang "that has never been achieved before."Pompeo's remarks come just weeks before the Winter Olympics kick off in South Korea -- an Olympic games that have become almost as much about diplomacy as they are about sports. After a year of soaring rhetoric and threats hurled between North Korea and the U.S., South Korea's most vital security partner, the peninsular neighbors have struck up a direct dialogue and agreed to cooperate in some aspects of the Olympics in the southern city of Pyeongchang. While South Korea's government has lauded the diplomatic detente on the Olympics as an opportunity to foster trust, which ...
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