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No Surprise If North Korea Tests Missile Again: CIA Chief

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Mike Pompeo said on Sunday he would not be surprised if North Korea tested another missile, Reuters reported.

This comes after North Korea carried out two tests in July, amid rising tensions between the two nations.

US President Donald Trump has offered fiery warnings to North Korea, saying that the US military was "locked and loaded." North Korean officials in turn have accused the US leader of driving the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war.

“I am quite confident that (North Korean leader Kim Jong Un) will continue to try to develop his missile program, so it wouldn’t surprise me if there was another missile test," Pompeo said on Fox News Sunday.

Reuters reported that North Korea said on Thursday that plans would be completed by mid-August to fire four intermediate-range missiles to land near the US Pacific island of Guam, 3,500 km away.

Guam, some 7,000 km from the US mainland, is a target because it is home to US Naval and Air Force bases, from which two B-1B supersonic bombers were deployed close to the Korean peninsula on Tuesday.

Trump wrote on Twitter on Friday that US "military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely."

Referring to Kim, Trump added: "If he utters one threat ... or if he does anything with respect to Guam or any place else that's an American territory or an American ally, he will truly regret it, and he will regret it fast."

Trump has urged China to apply more pressure on North Korea.

He is expected on Monday to launch a trade investigation into China.

No Surprise If North Korea Tests Missile Again: CIA Chief

CIA director Mike Pompeo said on Fox News Sunday that the US will not be surprised "if North Korea tests a missile again.”

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The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Mike Pompeo said on Sunday he would not be surprised if North Korea tested another missile, Reuters reported.

This comes after North Korea carried out two tests in July, amid rising tensions between the two nations.

US President Donald Trump has offered fiery warnings to North Korea, saying that the US military was "locked and loaded." North Korean officials in turn have accused the US leader of driving the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war.

“I am quite confident that (North Korean leader Kim Jong Un) will continue to try to develop his missile program, so it wouldn’t surprise me if there was another missile test," Pompeo said on Fox News Sunday.

Reuters reported that North Korea said on Thursday that plans would be completed by mid-August to fire four intermediate-range missiles to land near the US Pacific island of Guam, 3,500 km away.

Guam, some 7,000 km from the US mainland, is a target because it is home to US Naval and Air Force bases, from which two B-1B supersonic bombers were deployed close to the Korean peninsula on Tuesday.

Trump wrote on Twitter on Friday that US "military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely."

Referring to Kim, Trump added: "If he utters one threat ... or if he does anything with respect to Guam or any place else that's an American territory or an American ally, he will truly regret it, and he will regret it fast."

Trump has urged China to apply more pressure on North Korea.

He is expected on Monday to launch a trade investigation into China.

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