North Korea ‘Decision Time’ Is Near: U.S. Intelligence Chief

North Korean soldiers attend a mass rally to celebrate the North's declaration on November 29 it had achieved full nuclear statehood, on Kim Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang on Dec. 1, 2017. North Korea maintains a large army, but soldiers are not being given enough food and morale has plummeted, say sources inside the country. KIM WON-JIN/AFP/Getty Images

Washington — The U.S. director of national intelligence warned on Tuesday that time was running out for the United States to act on the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

North Korea presents “a potentially existential” threat to the United States and is likely to conduct more weapons tests this year, Dan Coats said at the Senate Intelligence Committee’s annual hearing on “Worldwide Threats.”