N.Korea Likely Can Miniaturize Nuclear Device: Seoul -- Yahoo News/ReutersSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has probably succeeded in miniaturizing a nuclear device, South Korea's defense minister said on Monday, an advance that would in theory allow the hermit state to place an atomic warhead on a rocket.
Regional powers have for years tried -- with a mix of aid offers and punitive sanctions -- in vain to stop Pyongyang pressing ahead with a nuclear weapons program it argues is a necessary defense against a hostile United States and South Korea with which it still has no peace treaty to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War.
Kim Kwan-jin offered no evidence to back his assertion but said the North had had enough time for such a development.
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My Comment: Unfortunately there is no hard proof that North Korea is doing this .... but what is the point of having a nuclear program if you are not trying to also develop a deliverable system.
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