North Korea May Be Capable of Hitting US With Nuclear Weapons in a ‘Handful of Months’

A North Korean soldier chats with a Chinese boat driver as he crouches on a wall on the bank of the Yalu river near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong. Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images

The director of the CIA said in a new interview that intelligence indicates North Korea may be capable of hitting the United States with nuclear weapons later this year.

Mike Pompeo told the BBC that the communist country may have the capability in “a handful of months.”