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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s long-term goal is to reunify the divided Korean Peninsula under his totalitarian government, the senior U.S. Navy officer overseeing military operations in the Pacific told lawmakers Wednesday, AP reported.

Adm. Harry Harris Jr. said during testimony before the House Armed Services Committee there’s a prevailing view that Kim needs a nuclear arsenal to safeguard his regime. But Harris says Kim is after much more.

“I think we are self-limiting if we view North Korea’s nuclear ambitions as solely a means to safeguard his regime,” said Harris, who leads U.S. Pacific Command. “I do think that he is after reunification under a single communist system. So he’s after what his grandfather failed to do and his father failed to do and he’s on a path to achieve what he feels is his natural place.”

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