Pompeo Warns of North Korea Nukes & Loose Spies’ Lips

CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks at FDD.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned North Korea may be only months away from being able to launch a nuclear-tipped missile at the United States.

“They are closer now than they were five years ago. And I expect they will be closer in five months than they are today, absent a global effort to push back against them,” he said Thursday at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ conference in Washington, D.C.

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