Us intelligence realized that I had underestimated the possibilities of North Korea in developing missile and nuclear programs, writes the print Edition the new York times, citing sources in the government and the security services.

Intelligence agencies reported to Donald Trump at the beginning of his presidency that the process of creating missiles in North Korea, capable of reaching the United States, will take up to 4 years, which will give them time to slow down or disrupt the development of weapons.

However, six months later, North Korea conducted a successful test of the hydrogen bomb, which was fifteen times more powerful than the charge dropped on Hiroshima. In addition, Korea, as the magazine stresses, has shown the ability missiles to reach the American island of GUAM, then the West coast of the country and then the U.S. capital. According to the newspaper, the failure of intelligence to predict the success of Pyongyang is associated with the idea that the development of weapons in North Korea will take as much time as needed to countries in the cold war period. Special services did not take into account the possibility of North Korea to access foreign developments and did not pay proper attention to the numerous test rockets in 2016 and 2017. Current and former Employees of the administration and special services call it " the biggest blunder of America."

Adviser on state security Herbert McMaster told that trump is not concerned about the rendering of special services and " realizes that impossible ideal exploration in the field of capabilities and intentions." The magazine stresses that the head is dealing with the same problem as his predecessors, But he has left much less time for its solution.

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