U. K.’s defence committee published its North Korea threat assessment Thursday, outlining the threat Kim Jong Un’s regime poses for Britain.
The British Ministry of Defence believes North Korea will be capable of launching a nuclear strike as early as this summer and will have intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that can reach British soil.
U. K.’s defence committee published its North Korea threat assessment Thursday, outlining the threat Kim Jong Un’s regime poses for Britain. Earl Howe, a British defence minister told the committee the North would be ready to carry out a nuclear strike in “six to 18 months.”
“We have seen a gradual advancement in their ballistic missile technology demonstrated over the last few years. With regards to capability, there is a significant buildup,” Howe told the committee. “We judge that they are now certainly capable of reaching targets in the short range, by which I mean Japan, South Korea—obviously—and adjoining territories.
“Our judgment is that it will probably be six to 18 months before they have an ICBM capability that is capable of reaching the coast of the United States or indeed ourselves,” Howe said of his assessment on Jan.
