DHS Sec. Kelly: Cyber Threat More Likely From North Korea

Tonight NBC has released a preview clip of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly talking with Chuck Todd about North Korea on Meet the Press.

There are reports that North Korea is preparing a sixth nuclear test this weekend, given how Saturday, April 15th marks the 105th birthday of Kim Il-Sung. A military parade began earlier tonight.

Todd asked Kelly to “explain the DHS preparations for something like a North Korea threat.”

Kelly said, “Every threat’s a little bit different. In the case of North Korea, you know, a kinetic threat against the United States right now I don’t think is likely, but certainly a cyber threat. So we would raise various threat levels in the event that something happened and we felt as though that there was a possible threat. You always want to… come down on the side of caution.”

Watch above, via NBC.

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