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A confidential Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence asessment has concluded that North Korea has miniaturized a nuclear warhead to make it capable of being launched by its ballistic missiles:
The analysis, completed last month by the Defense Intelligence Agency, comes on the heels of another intelligence assessment that sharply raises the official estimate for the total number of bombs in the communist country's atomic arsenal. The United States calculated last month that up to 60 nuclear weapons are now controlled by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Some independent experts think the number is much smaller.
[...] Although more than a decade has passed since North Korea's first nuclear detonation, many analysts thought it would be years before the country's weapons scientists could design a compact warhead that could be delivered by missile to distant targets. But the new assessment, a summary document dated July 28, concludes that this critical milestone has been reached.
"The IC [intelligence community] assesses North Korea has produced nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery, to include delivery by ICBM-class missiles," the assessment states, in an excerpt read to The Washington Post. Two U.S. officials familiar with the assessment verified its broad conclusions. It is not known whether the reclusive regime has successfully tested the smaller design, although North Korea officially claimed last year that it had done so.
Meanwhile, President Trump and Kim Jong Un have traded barbs:
President Donald Trump appears to have painted himself into a corner: He must now follow up on his pledge of hitting North Korea with "fire and fury," or he risks further blowing U.S. credibility.
Kim Jong-un's regime said late on Tuesday that it may strike Guam. That came shortly after Trump warned Pyongyang it would face "power, the likes of which this world has never seen before" if the renegade state continued to threaten the U.S.
"If the red line he drew today was 'North Korea cannot threaten the U.S. anymore,' that line was crossed within an hour of him making that statement," said John Delury, associate professor of Chinese studies at Seoul-based Yonsei University.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @02:12PM (6 children)
Not sure what you mean. GP gave me some helpful prepositions, dull but necessary articles, informative nouns (couple proper ones too along with other decent, hard-working words that are pro-noun), a nice assortment of good, simple verbs, and even a few basic adverbs.
Was honestly disappointed. Didn't find quite enough flavorful adjectives for my particular taste.
(Score: 4, Funny) by JNCF on Thursday August 10 2017, @02:16PM (1 child)
Adjectives are useless.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday August 10 2017, @09:02PM
No, you are:
mammoth
giant
spotty
boundless
thoughtful
barbarous
languid
chunky
dizzy
unsightly
sore
fallacious
erserk
wealthy
chemical
utopian
waggish
cool
bright
dear
glib
standing
vacuous
precious
versed
disgusted
inconclusive
abounding
abashed
future
disillusioned
comfortable
descriptive
wandering
confused
satisfying
tenuous
chief
earthy
energetic
difficult
flashy
nine
shut
thundering
lavish
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 10 2017, @03:36PM (3 children)
I'm not happy unless I get at least two gerunds.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Thursday August 10 2017, @06:10PM (2 children)
I'm partial to dangling participles, myself. They're the naughty bits of grammar.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Funny) by fyngyrz on Thursday August 10 2017, @08:25PM
I like the view when you tell 'em to turn over and you can look at their puns. Gets me going every time.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday August 10 2017, @09:11PM
Just don't end your sentence in a preposition, bastard. [youtube.com]
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh