The successful interception of a dummy ICBM this week is more evidence the U.S. will outpace North Korean missile technology through 2020, Vice Adm. Jim Syring, the director of the Missile Defense Agency, said Wednesday.

The test replicated the technology North Korea might be using three years from now based on U.S. intelligence estimates, and it cleared the way the next more complicated test of the Ground-base Midcourse Defense (GMD) system next year, said Syring, who briefed reporters at the Pentagon on the Tuesday intercept over the Pacific Ocean.

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