READY TO RUMBLE: North Korea Has Successfully Created A Mini Nuclear Warhead And Says U.S. Is The Target • Now The End Begins

READY TO RUMBLE: North Korea Has Successfully Created A Mini Nuclear Warhead And Says U.S. Is The Target

The nuclear progress further raises the stakes for President Trump,
who has vowed that North Korea will never be allowed to threaten the
United States with nuclear weapons. In an interview broadcast Saturday
on MSNBC’s Hugh Hewitt Show, national security adviser H.R. McMaster
said the prospect of a North Korea armed with nuclear-tipped ICBMs would
be “intolerable, from the president’s perspective.”

by Geoffrey Grider

August 8, 2017

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.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Kim Jong-Un may be crazy, but
he’s certainly not stupid. He’s been bragging for the past 3 and a half
years that his country would successfully acquire nukes, and now, they
have done it. This could have been prevented or indefinitely delayed had
Obama authorized the military to do something about, but since action
conflicts with his “lead from behind”
strategy, he did nothing. Now President Trump has this mess to deal
with, and make no mistake, North Korea will take a shot at hitting
America if they are not stopped. The clock is ticking…


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.

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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.


“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. The assessment’s broad conclusions were verified by two
U.S. officials familiar with the document. 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.

The DIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment.

An assessment this week by the Japanese Ministry of Defense also concludes there is evidence to suggest that North Korea has achieved miniaturization.

Kim Jong Un is becoming
increasingly confident in the reliability of his nuclear arsenal,
analysts have concluded, explaining perhaps the dictator’s willingness
to engage in defiant behavior, including missile tests that have drawn
criticism even from North Korea’s closest ally, China. On Saturday, both
China and Russia joined other members of the U.N. Security Council in approving punishing new economic sanctions, including a ban on exports that supply up to a third of North Korea’s annual $3 billion earnings.

The nuclear progress further raises the stakes for President Trump,
who has vowed that North Korea will never be allowed to threaten the
United States with nuclear weapons. In an interview broadcast Saturday
on MSNBC’s Hugh Hewitt Show, national security adviser H.R. McMaster
said the prospect of a North Korea armed with nuclear-tipped ICBMs would
be “intolerable, from the president’s perspective.”


“We have to provide all options . . . and that includes a military
option,” he said. But McMaster said the administration would do
everything short of war to “pressure Kim Jong Un and those around him,
such that they conclude it is in their interest to denuclearize.” The
options said to be under discussion ranged from new multilateral
negotiations to reintroducing U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons to the
Korean Peninsula, officials familiar with internal discussions said.

Kim has repeatedly proclaimed his intention to field a fleet of nuclear-tipped ICBMs as a guarantor of his regime’s survival.

His regime took a major step toward that goal last month with the first successful tests of a missile with intercontinental range.
Video analysis of the latest test revealed that the missile caught fire
and apparently disintegrated as it plunged back toward Earth’s surface,
suggesting North Korea’s engineers are not yet capable of building a
reentry vehicle that can carry the warhead safely through the upper
atmosphere. But U.S. analysts and many independent experts believe that
this hurdle will be overcome by late next year.


“What initially looked like a slow-motion Cuban missile crisis is now
looking more like the Manhattan Project, just barreling along,” said
Robert Litwak, a nonproliferation expert at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars and author of “Preventing North Korea’s Nuclear Breakout,” published by the center this year. “There’s a sense of urgency behind the program that is new to the Kim Jong Un era.” source







READY TO RUMBLE: North Korea Has Successfully Created A Mini Nuclear Warhead And Says U.S. Is The Target • Now The End Begins