Central Intelligence Agency director Porter Goss has warned that North Korean missiles are capable of reaching the United States with a nuclear weapon-sized payload.
Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee a week after North Korea claimed it has nuclear weapons, Goss said on Wednesday that the US intelligence community's assessment is that the North Korean missile, the TD-2 is capable of reaching the United States with a nuclear weapon-sized payload.
North Korea claims it has nukes
He also noted that Iran is pursuing long-range ballistic missiles. Rejecting the Iranian claim that it is interested only in nuclear power, Goss said, "We are more concerned about the dual-use nature of the technology."
Goss said, echoing what other officials had already said, that Iran was "supporting some anti-coalition activities in Iraq."
He added that Iran could encourage attacks on Israel through Hezbollah in hopes of derailing peace between Israel and the Paletinians.
He also warned the Committee that there is an emerging threat from experienced fighters now fighting US and other forces in Iraq.
These fighters, he said, could join international militants. "The jihadists who survive," he said, "will leave Iraq experienced and focused on acts of urban terrorism. They represent a potential pool of contacts to build international
terrorist cells, groups and networks. The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists," Goss added.
