Missiles ‘will reach UK’

NORTH Korea will almost certainly be able to reach the UK with a nuclear weapon within 18 months if its weapons programme continues at the same pace, MPs have said.

The Commons defence select committee report into the country said it was a “reasonable assumption” the North could reach the UK already and that it is “almost certain” to be able to carry nuclear warheads to these shores by 2019. It added the UK has a “limited” ballistic missile defence system.