South Korea: North Korea Has 'Significant' Tech To Build Mini Nuclear Device. (Defense News).
South Korea's defense ministry said Tuesday that North Korea appeared to have achieved a "significant" level of technology to miniaturize a nuclear device to be fitted on the tip of a missile.
The ministry made the warning in a white paper due to be released later Tuesday, although defense officials said the nuclear-armed North has yet to demonstrate its miniaturization capacity.
"North Korea's capabilities of miniaturizing nuclear weapons appear to have reached a significant level," the ministry said in a statement.
Although there is no doubt that North Korea has an extremely active ballistic missile development program, expert opinion is split on how much progress it has made.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted an unnamed defense ministry official as saying the North's Taepodong-2 long-range missile is believed to have increased its range to 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) from the previous estimate of up to 7,000 kilometers.
But no signs have been detected that Pyongyang has put long-range missiles into service, it said. Hmmmm.....How much have they shared with Iran? Read the full story here.
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