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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: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday August 11 2017, @01:31AM (1 child)
Trust me, I know the difference. In South Korea they have many, many golf courses. I put my missiles on one of them. My THAAD missiles. Looking forward to teeing off there! In North Korea they have one course. They have Pyongyang Golf Course, and that's all. They eat the grass and the trees. No mowers on the fairway. It's incredible but it works! Beautiful fairway, beautiful grass on that one course they have. They need more courses. They have locations with great potential, but they need a developer. And the Trump Organization has what it takes. I am sitting in my office in Bedminster. I will be at my desk, pen in hand. I'm ready to make North Korea one of the world's great golfing destinations. And we can talk about the missiles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @03:07AM
I think I've worked out your secret code -- when you say you are going to send "fire and fury", what you really mean is that you are going to send Dennis Rodman back to N Korea again.