Read the full piece in WIRED here.
“There were some officials both inside and outside of government who already believed that North Korea had the capability to mate a warhead to a missile, but it certainly wasn’t the consensus view,” says James McKeon, a policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “On North Korea’s current trajectory, though, there was no doubt that they were going to get there eventually unless something changed, unless there was a form of diplomatic negotiation or something that stopped them from getting there.”