DoD has "moderate confidence" that North Korea has the ability to deliver a nuclear weapon with a ba

[EmperorScorpious]

[quote](CNN) -- The Pentagon's intelligence arm has assessed with "moderate confidence" that North Korea has the ability to deliver a nuclear weapon with a ballistic missile, though the reliability is believed to be "low."

Disclosed first by a congressman at a hearing on Thursday and then confirmed to CNN by the Defense Department, the assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency is the clearest acknowledgment yet by the United States about potential advances in North Korea's nuclear program.[/quote]

[url]http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/11/world/asia/koreas-tensions/index.html?hpt=hp_t1[/url]

[valkery]

He is acknowledging that they may have nuclear missiles, not that they can nuke mainland USA.

[Take_Opal]

I thought this was known from the start.

[Zareox]

The article title is a little bit misleading. They say that they have moderate confidence they can launch a nuke, however[quote] though the reliability is believed to be "low."[/quote]

Before you guys get all worried, later in the article they said.

[quote]Pentagon spokesman George Little said later Thursday, "It would be [B]inaccurate to suggest[/B] that the North Korean regime has [B]fully tested, developed, or demonstrated the kinds of nuclear capabilities[/B] referenced in the passage" of the DIA study.[/quote]

and

[quote]That stance was echoed by James R. Clapper, director of U.S. national intelligence, who said the statement read by Rep. Doug Lamborn "is not an intelligence community assessment. Moreover, [B]North Korea has not yet demonstrated the full range of capabilities necessary for a nuclear armed missile.[/B]"[/quote]

[JerryK]

i'd love to be one of the people in charge of fear mongering, it must be so much fun

[Darkride196]

Yellow press guys. They're demonizing nk just in case we need to fight so they have public approval. Scaring the popular opinion into invasion through sensationalism.

[chainsauce]

People still play Day of Defeat?

[Ataso]

[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;40252201]Yellow press guys. They're demonizing nk just in case we need to fight so they have public approval. Scaring the popular opinion into invasion through sensationalism.[/QUOTE]

Because Best Korea needs demonizing? While it may be Yellow press, I don't think its just to demonize North Korea, they've been doing that themselves for years.

[Dr.C]

[QUOTE=lord0war;40252206]People still play Day of Defeat?[/QUOTE]

still waiting on DOD:GO