North Korea Now Making Missile-Ready Nuclear Weapons, US Analysts Say (washingtonpost.com)

schwit1 shares a report from The Washington Post: North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment. The new 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 U.S. calculated last month that up to 60 nuclear weapons are now controlled by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Some independent experts believe the number of bombs is much smaller. "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. "It is not yet known whether the reclusive regime has successfully tested the smaller design, although North Korea officially last year claimed to have done so," reports The Washington Post.

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Re:More US warmongering

[Frosty Piss]

They said they would build an ICBM that could reach America. They did (Hawaii and Alaska so far).

Have they? I see these map graphs with range circles associated with certain missiles - which have not flow that far...

Saying something is capable - if they can figure out how to design the missile to withstand reentry, or the missile is capable - if they can perfect complex gyros and navigational hardware / software so the missile can hit a target, or the missile is capable - if they can figure out how to insure it does not explode on launch or break up in flight...

These things are the same as saying that the North Koreans *are not* capable of these things.