North Korea’s Nuclear Program Reaches Tipping Point for the US

About this episode

The episode discusses North Korea's accelerating nuclear and missile program and its implications for US defenses.

As global attention is focused on war in the Middle East, North Korea has been accelerating its nuclear and missile program — testing new weapons and producing more warheads. On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, host K. Oanh Ha speaks with Bloomberg’s Jon Herskovitz on Kim Jong Un’s aggressive nuclear buildup and the strain that puts on US defenses. Read more: North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal is Outgrowing the US Missile Defenses We have a special Bloomberg subscription offer for podcast listeners at  Bloomberg.com/podcastoffer. Hosted by K. Oanh Ha; Produced by Naomi Ng; Reported by Jon Herskovitz, Soo-Hyang Choi; Edited by Paddy Hirsch. Fact-checking by Yang Yang; Engineering by Taka Yasuzawa. Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: K. Oanh Ha

Guest: Jon Herskovitz

Topics covered

• North Korea
• nuclear program
• US defenses
• missile testing
• Kim Jong Un
• geopolitics

Keywords

• North Korea
• nuclear weapons
• missile program
• Kim Jong Un
• US defenses
• geopolitical tensions
• war in the Middle East

Sponsors

Bloomberg

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bloomberg, iHeartPodcasts

Places: North Korea, Middle East

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