Can North Korea Fit A Nuclear Weapon On A Ballistic Missile?

Are North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Small Enough To Fit A Ballistic Missile? -- Peter Grier, Christian Science Monitor

North Korea claims to have made progress on miniaturized nuclear devices. Some experts credit that claim, but much of what North Korea can or can't do remains unknown.

Can North Korea make a nuclear warhead small enough to fit atop a ballistic missile? That’s a key question facing the US and its allies in East Asia as tensions continue to roil the Korean Peninsula.

Following its Feb. 12 nuclear test, Pyongyang boasted that it had detonated a “miniaturized and lighter nuclear device." Some US experts interpreted this to mean that North Korea is claiming to have developed a weapon that would fit on a Nodong medium-range rocket or, perhaps, even the untested, longer-range KN-08. This would threaten South Korea and perhaps Japan, but not the US mainland itself.

“The question is, do we believe them?” writes nuclear expert Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Foreign Policy magazine.

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My Comment: No one really knows what is the state of North Korea's nuclear program. Bottom Line .... our intelligence is lacking and those who may know (North Korean allies like China and Russia) are not talking publicly on what North Korea's nuclear/missile program is capable of.