North Korea Nuclear Effort Seen as a Top Threat to the U.S.

[Binkie The Clown]

WASHINGTON — The national intelligence director, James R. Clapper, warned Tuesday that North Korea had expanded its production of weapons-grade nuclear fuel, making clear that the Obama administration now regarded the reclusive government in Pyongyang, rather than Iran, as the world’s most worrisome nuclear threat.

Mr. Clapper’s warning, delivered in his annual worldwide threat assessment to the Senate Armed Services Committee, came a day after President Obama called the leaders of Japan and South Korea to reassure them after a satellite launch by North Korea deepened fears that the North could strike the two countries with nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles.

“Pyongyang continues to produce fissile material and develop a submarine-launched ballistic missile,” Mr. Clapper said. “It is also committed to developing a long-range nuclear-armed missile that’s capable of posing a direct threat to the United States, although the system has not been flight tested.”

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(On an off-topic aside, didn't one of our Democratic presidential candidates just say that a while back?)

[valerief]

1. But the pundits laughed at Bernie last week when he said NK was our biggest threat.

Don't tell me Bernie's judgment was spot on last week, too.

[Dretownblues]

2. Guess thats another meme to retire

[Kip Humphrey]

4. The revolution may not be televised but irony will run like blood in the streets.

[Mnemosyne]

3. KnR! nt