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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere we go...North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons
?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 countrys 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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/north-korea-now-making-missile-ready-nuclear-weapons-us-analysts-say/2017/08/08/e14b882a-7b6b-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html
Girard442
(6,087 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)would make Iraq look like a block party. NK would be turned to glass within a couple of hours of them exploding a nuke.
Girard442
(6,087 posts)I'd think even Trump wouldn't want to go down in history as the POTUS who lost Los Angeles.
On edit: changed subject line from "aren't to be used" to "aren't useful". Doesn't presume any particular intentions of the parties involved.
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)eventually anyway? If so, but look what we have as shoddy so-called CiC.....
EX500rider
(10,884 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)We cried wolf once too often. Now we have a REAL threat. And an idiot in charge.
rockfordfile
(8,709 posts)bdamomma
(63,941 posts)these two jerks would meet together since trump has a thing for dictators.
both asses.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)comfortable if at least one of the potential combatants was remotely stable in a psychological sense.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,475 posts)Last edited Tue Aug 8, 2017, 02:49 PM - Edit history (1)
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)So, where should it be set today?
Cicada
(4,533 posts)Even if the nuke fizzles the dirty bomb radiation will kill sales.
I bet the NK leaders have already picked out the best bomb shelter sites.
Hopefully Trump won't call their bluff.