The North Korean Missile Threat - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

Do the United States and its allies really have the technology to stop incoming missiles from North Korea?



In the week North Korea tested another ballistic missile - this time it flew over northern Japan - David Aaronovich asks what threat does North Korea's missile programme pose?And beyond North Korea, what are the capabilities of ICBMs? And how effective are missile defence systems?



Contributors:Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at Kings College London



Joseph Cirincione author of Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too LateDr Patricia Lewis, a former UN official who specialised in non-proliferation



Dr Laura Grego from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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