{"id":2460,"date":"2017-07-27T08:11:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T08:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2017-07-27T08:11:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T08:11:56","slug":"north-korea-could-cross-icbm-threshold-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/07\/27\/north-korea-could-cross-icbm-threshold-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"NORTH KOREA COULD CROSS ICBM THRESHOLD NEXT YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/HWASONG-14-B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2354\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/HWASONG-14-B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1023\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/HWASONG-14-B.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/HWASONG-14-B-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/HWASONG-14-B-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/HWASONG-14-B-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/HWASONG-14-B-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/HWASONG-14-B-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : The Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>By Ellen Nakashima, Anna Fifield and Joby Warrick<\/p>\n<p>North Korea will be able to field a reliable, nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile as early as next year, U.S. officials have concluded in a confidential assessment that dramatically shrinks the timeline for when Pyongyang could strike North American cities with atomic weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The new assessment by the \u00adPentagon\u2019s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which shaves a full two years off the consensus forecast for North Korea\u2019s ICBM program, was prompted by recent missile tests showing surprising technical advances by the country\u2019s weapons scientists, at a pace beyond what many analysts believed was possible for the isolated communist regime.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/north-korea-could-cross-icbm-threshold-next-year-us-officials-warn-in-new-assessment\/2017\/07\/25\/4107dc4a-70af-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.c016a37584d3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : The Washington Post By Ellen Nakashima, Anna Fifield and Joby Warrick North Korea will be able to field a reliable, nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile as early as next year, U.S. officials have concluded in a confidential assessment that dramatically shrinks the timeline for when Pyongyang could strike North American cities with atomic weapons.&hellip; 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