REPORT: North Korea Has Successfully Created a Nuclear Bomb Small Enough to to Fit Inside a Missile

Kim Jong-un Focused on Becoming a Full-Fledged Nuclear Power

The Washington Post is reporting that North Korea has crossed an important threshold in its race to become a full-fledged nuclear power. The totalitarian dictatorship has successfully miniaturized a nuclear bomb, making it small enough to fit in a missile. Last week North Korea surprised many when it tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) it says could reach all of the U.S. mainland. Experts agree it could reach a large portion of the U.S.

“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 Korean officially last year claimed to have done so.

The Post also cites the Japanese Ministry of Defense as agreeing North Korea has been able to successfully miniaturize a nuclear bomb to fit in its missiles.

MSNBC intelligence and national security reporter Ken Dilanian called it “an extremely disturbing” development.

Despite President Donald Trump’s promise that the regime of Kim Jong-un will never become a nuclear power, the North Korean dictator is clearly intent on doing so, and President Trump’s efforts to farm out reining in North Korea to China have failed miserably. It appears likely North Korea will become a dangerous nuclear adversary, and it will have been on Trump’s watch.

“Siegfried Hecker, director emeritus of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the last known U.S. official to personally inspect North Korea’s nuclear facilities, has calculated the size of North Korea’s arsenal at no more than 20 to 25 bombs,” The Post notes. “Hecker warned of potential risks that can come from making Kim into a bigger menace than he actually is.”

“The real threat,” Hecker said, “is we’re going to stumble into a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.”

72 percent of Americans are uneasy about a conflict with North Korea, and 61 percent do not have confidence in Trump’s ability to handle the situation with North Korea’s nuclear program, according to the latest CBS News poll, released Tuesday.

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