WASHINGTON - North Korea's growing nuclear and missile capabilities are already an existential threat to South Korea and Japan. Shortly after assuming power in late 2011, Kim Jong-un directed the creation of a new war plan to complete an invasion of South Korea within a week using nuclear weapons and missiles. In March 2017, Kim Jong-un observed a missile exercise practicing a nuclear attack on U.S. bases in Japan.
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