This is not good news at all…in fact it is really bad, bad news:
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 findings are likely to deepen concerns about an evolving North Korean military threat that appears to be advancing far more rapidly than many experts had predicted. U.S. officials last month concluded that Pyongyang is also outpacing expectations in its effort to build an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking cities on the American mainland.
While more than a decade has passed since North Korea’s first nuclear detonation, many analysts believed 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 already been reached.
If this is true, then perhaps John Bolton is wrong and we now have ZERO diplomatic options left to deal with N. Korea. Which means a military strike would likely be imminent. After all, N. Korea is testing ballistic missiles quite frequently.
Also what will this mean for Iran, who I’m sure would very much love to buy some of these miniaturized nukes from Pyongyang? Iran is testing ballistic missiles as well. No doubt Saudi Arabia and Israel might have something to say about all of this.