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CIA Chief Pompeo on Keeping Secrets & Slowing Down Pyongyang

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Posted: January 23rd, 2018

CIA Director Mike Pompeo revealed Tuesday that North Korea is still “months” away from being able to fire nuclear weapons reliably at the United States, in remarks to the American Enterprise Institute. Earlier this week, the told CBS News North Korea is a “handful of months” away, and last fall he also used the phrase “months away,” leaving Tuesday’s audience, and presumably Pyongyang in the dark as to how much the CIA knows – though he said nothing about the North Korean nuclear program’s pace had caught his agency by surprise, contrary to press reports. We asked Cipher Brief experts Ambassador Joseph DeTrani and Gordon Chang to comment on some of Director Pompeo’s remarks.

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