Northern Exposure

The U.S. has recently acquired a new asset in its diplomatic battle with North Korea over nuclear weapons. In what appears to be a major intelligence coup, the CIA last month recruited a scientist who worked on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, two U.S. officials and a foreign government source tell TIME. The scientist (who is not from the North and whose identity TIME was asked to withhold for the sake of his family's safety) has been relocated to the U.S. and has provided valuable information on the "location, degree of development in capabilities, where they are, and how far along...

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