A TOP military official in charge of stopping war with North Korea has admitted Kim Jong-un WILL fire a nuclear weapon.
Speaking to a congressional panel in the United States today, Admiral Harry Harris warned he could not guarantee Kim would not do “something precipitous”.
Harris, who is the commander of the US Pacific Command (Pacom), said the hermit state could throw the world over a cliff edge if it succeeds in mounting a nuclear weapon to a ballistic missile.
His comments come as Donald Trump ordered a rare classified briefing on the situation at the White House for the entire US Senate today.
Harris said: "Just as Thomas Edison is believed to have failed 1,000 times before successfully inventing the light bulb, so, too, Kim Jong-un will keep trying. One of these days soon, he will succeed."
But he added the US does not know exactly when Pyongyang will be successful, saying he in not sure of the “infection point”.
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WAR: Admiral Harry Harris warned Kim will fire nuclear missiles if he makes them REUTERS
WARNING: Admiral Harry Harris warned North Korea will succeed in its missile ambitions
Speaking to a congressional panel in the United States today, Admiral Harry Harris warned he could not guarantee Kim would not do “something precipitous”.
Harris, who is the commander of the US Pacific Command (Pacom), said the hermit state could throw the world over a cliff edge if it succeeds in mounting a nuclear weapon to a ballistic missile.
His comments come as Donald Trump ordered a rare classified briefing on the situation at the White House for the entire US Senate today.
Harris said: "Just as Thomas Edison is believed to have failed 1,000 times before successfully inventing the light bulb, so, too, Kim Jong-un will keep trying. One of these days soon, he will succeed."
But he added the US does not know exactly when Pyongyang will be successful, saying he in not sure of the “infection point”.
WAR: Admiral Harry Harris warned Kim will fire nuclear missiles if he makes them
WARNING: Admiral Harry Harris warned North Korea will succeed in its missile ambitions
