Gates: North Korea Will Nuke U.S
Defense Secretary Says Situation a ‘Direct Threat’
Reports are coming out that North Korea will likely posses intercontinental ballistic missiles with five years. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that the North is “becoming a direct threat to the United States” offering a blunt new assessment of the threat posed by the North Korea.
Robert Gates also meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing, Gates said he told senior leaders that he identified two developments that “changed the status quo” on the Korean peninsula: Pyongyang’s continued development of nuclear weapons and ICBM, and South Korea’s growing threats to attack the North.