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US homeland ‘safe and secure’ from new North Korean missile, says Pentagon

Assessment delivered after North Korea tests its first-ever hypersonic missile and other new weapons tech in September

North Korea’s newest hypersonic missile does not pose a threat to the U.S. homeland, according to the Pentagon.

The assessment was delivered at a press briefing on Thursday by Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby and commander of U.S. Northern Command, Gen. Glen VanHerck.

“I understand the intelligence community is still making an assessment of the — the North Korean claim to have tested a hypersonic. We’ll just have to see that capability,” Vanherck said. “Right now, it would be my assessment that the homeland would be safe and secure from a hypersonic capability as North Korea claims they have