The second-highest ranking United States general on Tuesday said that North Korea now has the ability to strike the American mainland with a nuclear missile — but lacks the “accuracy”…
North Korea can now strike the United States with an intercontinental ballistic missile — the type of missile used to carry a nuclear warhead — but not with enough accuracy to hit a specific target in the United States, the second-highest ranking U. S. general told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. And according to a new poll also released Tuesday, the American public has very little confidence that Donald Trump can handle the North Korean threat.
While more than 80 percent of Americans believe that North Korea poses a threat to the U. S., and three of out of four say they are concerned the crisis over that country’s nuclear program could erupt into all-out war, only about one in every three U. S. citizens have faith that Trump can handle the situation, according to the new ABC News/ Washington Post poll .
North Korea on July 4 tested what appears to be its most powerful missile yet, an ICBM that experts say could reach Alaska or Hawaii with a nuclear warhead. Perhaps even more significantly, the Hwasong-14 missile test showed that with its accelerated nuclear program under “supreme leader” Kim Jong Un, North Korea may be as close as a single year away from developing a missile that could deliver a targeted nuclear strike to the west coast of the U. S. mainland.
In January of this year, prior to his inauguration, Trump promised in a post to his Twitter account that though North Korea was “in the final stages” of developing a missile capable of a nuclear strike on the United States, “it won’ t happen.
