North Korea Now Immune From Attack -- Greg Sheridan, The Australian
"NORTH Korea is moving to become an existential threat to the US." This is the stark, sobering judgment of a former senior US official on Pyongyang's nuclear test this week. It was the most powerful of North Korea's three nuclear tests so far, providing a bomb of perhaps half the strength of that which devastated Hiroshima in World War II.
It is still unclear whether it was a plutonium device, like the previous two, or one that used highly enriched uranium. If it is the latter, North Korea now has two sources of fuel.
The truth is, Western intelligence knows very little about what goes on inside North Korea, especially inside the head of Pyongyang's bombastic young dictator, Kim Jong-un.
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China's String of Pearls? -- Robert Kaplan, Real Clear World/Stratfor
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