Saturday
Jan062018
How U.S. Intelligence Agencies Underestimated North Korea

A major article in the New York Times by David E. Sanger and William J. Broad.
The article reports that in the long view, over the course of years and even decades, U.S. intelligence agencies could foresee the potential for North Korea to build a nuclear weapons arsenal capable of threatening the continental United States.
However, in more recent months and even years, those same U.S. intelligence agencies underestimated the speed with which North Korea could achieve this capability, the article concludes.
