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CIA establishes mission center focused on North Korea

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The CIA has opened a mission center focused on curbing North Korea’s advancing weapons program, the agency announced on Wednesday. «Creating the…
The CIA has opened a mission center focused on curbing North Korea’s advancing weapons program, the agency announced on Wednesday.
«Creating the Korea Mission Center allows us to more purposefully integrate and direct CIA efforts against the serious threats to the United States and its allies emanating from North Korea, » CIA Director Mike Pompeo said  in a statement. «It also reflects the dynamism and agility that CIA brings to evolving national security challenges.»
A veteran CIA operations officer allegedly has been tapped to lead the mission center as the assistant director of Korea, though the agency did not give the officer’s name.
The establishment of the mission center comes amid heightened tensions between Washington and Pyongyang. The U. S. last month sent a naval strike group into the West Pacific near the Korean Peninsula to deter Pyongyang from conducting further weapons tests.

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