People watch a television news screen showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch, at a railway station in Seoul on August 29, 2017. AFP PHOTO / JUNG Yeon-Je)
* France warns North Korea is close to being able to launch long-range rockets
* Foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the situation is now 'extremely serious'
* It comes after North Korea caused outrage by firing a rocket over Japan
Kim Jong-un is just 'a few months' away from being able to send nuke-laden rockets to Europe or the US, France has warned.
French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned North Korea had 'set itself an objective' to create the long-range missiles and that the 'situation is extremely serious'.
It comes amid heightened tensions and a war of words with the US after the dictator fired a rocket over Japan.
Le Drian told RTL radio: 'The situation is extremely serious... we see North Korea setting itself as an objective to have tomorrow or the day after missiles that can transport nuclear weapons. In a few months that will be a reality.
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Update #1: France says North Korea close to long-range missile capability (Reuters)
Update #2: N. Korea could nuke US, Europe 'within months': France (AFP)
WNU Editor: Others are predicting that it will take years before North Korea is able to target the U.S. or Europe with a nuclear missile .... This Missile Could Reach California. But Can North Korea Use It With a Nuclear Weapon? (New York Times). So you have to wonder .... what do the French know that everyone else does not.
