Australian NATO envoy Di Turton warns North Korea has 'combat-ready troops in our region'

[Ashton Morris]

Air Vice-Marshal Di Turton spoke to the ABC exclusively before finishing her European posting. Air Vice-Marshal Turton warned global conflicts "once quite segregated or delineated by geography are now very much more interconnected", and that Australia was not immune. "And this could result in a number of things like North Korea already has inter-continental ballistic missiles capable of hitting all areas of continental Australia and Tasmania.that will have implications for our region," she said.