The strikes potentially hardened Kim Jong Un’s determination to hold on to—and expand—his nuclear arsenal as a deterrent to any attack on North Korea.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Wednesday credible intelligence indicated that Iran’s nuclear program was “severely damaged” in recent U.S. air strikes.

But on June 25th several American media outlets published details of a much more sceptical take from the Defence Intelligence Agency ( DIA ), which reportedly concluded that the American and Israeli strikes set Iran’s nuclear programme back by months,