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US can't effectively counter nuclear threat, <i>Times</i> finds

Trump has signaled his preference to respond aggressively against the North Korean threat

President Donald Trump (right), sitting with Army Lt General H R McMaster (left) at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach where the latter was declared as the new national security adviser.
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David E Sanger & William J Broad | NYT Washington
Three years ago, President Barack Obama ordered Pentagon officials to step up their cyber and electronic strikes against North Korea’s missile program in hopes of sabotaging test launches in their opening seconds.

Soon a large number of the North’s military rockets began to explode, veer off course, disintegrate in midair and plunge into the sea. Advocates of such efforts say they believe that targeted attacks have given American antimissile defenses a new edge and delayed by several years the day when North Korea will be able to threaten American cities with nuclear weapons launched atop intercontinental ballistic missiles.

But other experts have