The U.S. Department of Defense says North Korea is likely to develop within the next decade intercontinental ballistic missiles equipped with nuclear warheads.

The Pentagon said in its Ballistic Missile Defense Review Tuesday that if there are no major changes in the North’s national security strategy in the next ten years, it will be able to mate a nuclear warhead to a proven delivery system.

The report said that although the North’s test launches of long-range ballistic missiles in 2006 and 2009 were deemed unsuccessful, it must be assumed that sooner or later Pyongyang will succeed in launching its Daepodong-Two missile.

The report added that despite the most recent launch’s failure in its stated mission to place a small communications satellite in orbit, the North has seen progress in its ballistic missile technologies.

According to the report, North Korea has developed an advanced solid-propellant short-range ballistic missile and is developing mobile intermediate-range ballistic missiles and has an ongoing program for missile cooperation with Iran.