North Korea says it can miniaturize nuclear weapons

CNN ^ | 05/20/2015 | Jethro Mullen

[SeekAndFind]

North Korea said Wednesday that it has the ability to miniaturize nuclear weapons, a key step toward building nuclear missiles.

Analysts and U.S. officials have said previously that they suspected Kim Jong Un's regime was working toward accomplishing the technical feat, which is needed to fit a nuclear device on the tip of a ballistic missile.

But on Wednesday, the official U.S. response was skepticism.

"Our assessment of North Korea's nuclear capabilities has not changed," National Security Council spokesman Patrick Ventrell said in a statement. "We do not think that they have that capacity."

"However, they are working on developing a number of long range missiles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, that could eventually threaten our allies and the homeland," the U.S. spokesman added. "That is why the Administration is working to improve regional and homeland missile defenses and continuing to work with the other members of the six-party talks to bring North Korea back into compliance with its nonproliferation commitments."

The six-party talks refer to nuclear disarmament efforts by the United States, North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan and Russia.

But the North Korean assertion was unequivocal.

[BenLurkin]

The ChiComs bribed the Clintons into giving them the know-how on how to do this.

Who did the NorKors buy off?

[BipolarBob]

We can miniaturize North Korea.

[DesertRhino]

I did cold fusion in a Dixie cup. It was just last week.

[Darksheare]

That was coffee you let get cold?

[RIghtwardHo]

lol. Honey I Shrunk the Bomb?

[George from New England]

Mini weapon from N/K is likely to mean a ‘mini-boom’

Probably less than the boom from a stick of TNT.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Missa Kim is so ronery....he a need bomb to keep him company.

[tet68]

Next up, North Korea invents nuclear hand grenades.

[The Toll]

ENVY

[RayChuang88]

If you're talking a fission-style atomic bomb, remember in 1953 the Operation Upshot-Knothole Grable test, they got a 15 KT uranium-235 "gunbarrel" bomb small enough to be fired from an artillery piece. As such, the North Koreans could equip their ballistic missiles with 15-17 KT yield nuclear warheads fairly soon.

[DesertRhino]

I was able to successfully fuse some H2O molecules with some whiskey.

[Darksheare]

That is better than coffee.
Hmm.