The Poor Man: Porcine opera 101

Glam.

The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency said Thursday that American intelligence agencies believed North Korea had mastered the technology for arming its missiles with nuclear warheads, an assessment that if correct, means the North could build weapons to threaten Japan and perhaps the western United States.

As Jeffrey Lewis explains, this information is probably not so much “new” as it is “new to me” - it has apparently been the intelligence community assessment for some time that North Korea had this capacity, and this assessment was shared privately with allies, but it was not meant for public consumption. Why this bit of information would be withheld from the electorate while the administration’s rumored strategy for containing North Korea falls flat on its face is left as an exercise for the reader.