Posted on 05/20/2015 5:21:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai
North Korea claimed Wednesday that it has manufactured nuclear warheads small enough to fit on the head of a missile, an announcement that is likely to ratchet up tensions in east Asia, particularly with South Korea.
According to Yonhap News, a spokesman for North Korea’s National Defense Commission said that the development of the alleged weapons was part of an initiative to boost Pyongyang’s self-defense capability.
“It is long since the DPRK’s nuclear striking means have entered the stage of producing smaller nukes and diversifying them,” the spokesman said, using the acronym of North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “The DPRK has reached the stage of ensuring the highest precision and intelligence and best accuracy of not only medium- and short-range rockets, but long-range ones.”
If the North’s claim is true, it presents a fresh threat to the security of South Korea and Japan, as well as the United States. …
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More troops missiles and missile shields should be deployed if Kim un wants a fight we’ll give him one.
Just don’t tell Kim he’s got a miniature warhead; you’re liable to end up in front of a firing squad.
miniaturized warheads?
ROFL
I am not even sure they have electricity !
They get on the intarwebs without electricity? Another miracle to attribute to the Kim dynasty?
Ping.
I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss it. We know from the prosecution of the ex-CIA member that Iran acquired nuclear warhead plans in Feb 2000. The Iranians have worked closely with NK on nuclear and missile research. The only real question is whether NK has been able to reprocess their nuclear fuel to produce weapons grade plutonium. To date, their nuclear testing suggests to some they haven’t reached the proper level of purity, hence the low-yield “fizzles.”
It seems pretty clear from NK tests, that they are using reactor grade Pu239 and either a gun or a bad implosion design.
Gun design won’t work and first gen implosion is NOT small.
Kim’s Viagra is talking.
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