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"The recent claim by Kim Jong Un that North Korea plans to develop the world’s
most powerful nuclear force may well have been more bravado than credible
threat. But that doesn’t mean it can be ignored.
The best guess is that North Korea now has sufficient fissile material to build
45 to 55 nuclear weapons, three decades after beginning its program. The
warheads would mostly have yields of around 10 to 20 kilotons, similar to the
15 kiloton bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
But North Korea has the capacity to make devices ten times bigger. Its missile
delivery systems are also advancing in leaps and bounds. The technological
advance is matched in rhetoric and increasingly reckless acts, including
test-firing missiles over Japan in violation of all international norms,
provoking terror and risking accidental war.
The question now is how best to bring the pariah nation into the orbit of arms
control negotiations and international dialogue. However remote the chances of
that, the alternative risks a regional nuclear arms race."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
