tests. We can only expect further tests in 2017, given the estimates by a Council on Foreign Relations task force chaired by retired Admiral Michael Mullen that North Korea may have between 13 and 21 nuclear weapons as of June 2016.% Even more troubling is a pattern highlighted by David Gordon, adjunct

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can anxiety that budgetary constraints, which are leading to defence cuts in Europe, are beginning to be replicated in the US itself. Admiral Michael Mullen, America's top military officer, has called the budget deficit the single biggest threat to US national security. It is also the single biggest const