Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 4 December 1996 Senator Specter and other Members of the Committee, I propose to summarize very briefly for you the statement we have submitted for the record.
Serious issues are on the table today.
But it is also not inconsequential that the findings of this Estimate have come under sharp attack, along with the professional integrity of those who prepared it. What the Estimate Says . . . It seeks to gauge the threat to North America, including Canada and all 50 of our states, from emerging missile forces in the world. And as with all National Intelligence Estimates, this one sought to project events over a certain period of time, in this case 15 years. First, among the countries potentially hostile to the US, North Korea has the most advanced ballistic missile program.