WASHINGTON (AP) " CIA Director Mike Pompeo (pahm-PAY'-oh) says North Korea is moving "ever closer" to putting Americans at risk with its nuclear weapons.
Pompeo says he believes leader Kim Jong Un won't rest until he's able to threaten multiple nuclear attacks against the U.S. at the same time.
Pompeo also says the CIA believes Kim would not only use nuclear weapons to stay in power, but to threaten to reunify the divided Korean Peninsula under his totalitarian regime.
He says North Korea is a handful of months from being able to put America at risk. He hopes to be able to use the same timeframe a year from now.
The former Kansas congressman spoke Tuesday at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank in Washington.