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  • 'Matter of time' before N.Korea miniaturises nuke: report

    12/20/2009 11:54:27 PM PST · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 2 replies · 305+ views
    Space War ^ | 12/20/2009 | AFP via Space War
    North Korea will eventually be able to make a nuclear warhead small enough to fit in a missile, a news report said Sunday. Seoul's Yonhap news agency, citing the state-run Korea Institute for Defence Analyses (KIDA), said Pyongyang developing the technology to achieve miniaturisation was inevitable. "It is believed that North Korea has not completed the technology for the miniaturisation... of nuclear warheads," KIDA said in a report to be issued in January, according to Yonhap. But KIDA said it is "just a matter of time", noting the country has a high-explosives test site and an estimated 3,000 nuclear scientists...