Sunday, November 9, 2014

Will North Korea Ever Use Its Nuclear Weapons?


Will North Korea Ever Use Its Nuclear Weapons? -- The Guardian

The US has claimed that Pyongyang is now able to shrink a nuclear weapon to fit on a ballistic missile. NK News asked an expert panel how worried we should be.

A senior US general claimed last week that North Korea has the expertise to build a nuclear warhead that can be mounted on a ballistic missile – although he added that there was no evidence that it had actually done so.

General Curtis Scaparrotti, the commander of US forces in South Korea, said he thought Pyongyang has access to the necessary technology to miniaturise and mount an atomic weapon on a missile because of its ties with Iran and Pakistan.

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My Comment: I have the luxury of living thousands of miles away from the Korean peninsula .... so I am not overly worried. But if I was living there .... I would be very concerned.

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