How Big A Threat Is North Korea?

Models of a North Korean Scud-B missile (2nd L) and South Korean Hawk surface-to-air missiles are seen at the Korean War Memorial Museum in Seoul May 27, 2009. North Korea will take "self-defence measures" if the U.N. Security Council punishes Pyongyang for its nuclear test, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak

From Yahoo News/Christian Science Monitor:

North Korea has raised the stakes on the Korean peninsula by conducting an underground nuclear weapon test Monday and subsequently test-firing half a dozen short-range missiles. The rapid sequence of events is creating a new sense of crisis in Asia and fresh concerns about the proliferation of nuclear weapons technology.

North Korea has been reprocessing spent fuel rods to produce weapons-grade plutonium at its central nuclear complex at Yongbyon since the 1980s. North Korea now is believed to have enough reporcessed plutonium for at least half a dozen nuclear warheads. Although no one knows for sure how many warheads the regime has fabricated or even where they are, North Korea has now detonated two of them. The first test, in October 2006, measured less than one kiloton, a weak blast likely due to problems with the design or materiel.

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My Comment: A threat if there ever was one.