US Missile Defense Chief: US Must Assume it Is in ‘Range’ of North Korean Nuke

Wednesday, June 7, 2017
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
08.06.2017

Vice Admiral James Syring, the head of the US Missile Defense Agency, told a House Armed Services Committee meeting on Wednesday that his agency must assume Pyongyang can today “range” the US with a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), and that North Korea’s missile program advances are cause for “great concern.”

“The advancements in the last six months have caused great concern to me and others, in the advancement of and demonstration of technology of ballistic missiles from North Korea,” Syring told the committee. “I would not say we are comfortably ahead of the threat; I would say we are addressing the threat that we know today.”

lt is incumbent on his agency to assume that the US is in fact in harm’s way with regard to North Korea’s missile capabilities.

With an eye on Pyongyang, the US conducted a missile test in late May from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, successfully shooting down a mock ICBM. Syring called the test an “incredible accomplishment.”

The US Air Force conducted another test on Tuesday from the Reagan test site on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

The agency has expressed great confidence in its ground-based missile defense system, saying it has “demonstrated capability” to defend the US against provocation from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), but some critics see the system, which has a history of inconsistent showings, as an expensive effort that doesn’t yield results timely enough to be valuable.

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