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Pyongyang’s claim that it has shrunk a nuclear warhead brings it one step closer to striking the U.S.

North Korea has been saying for years that it is striving to build a nuclear-tipped missile capable of attacking the U.S. It took a giant step toward that prize Wednesday when its official news agency asserted the nation’s scientists had miniaturized an atomic warhead capable of riding atop a Pacific-spanning rocket.

North Korean media showed leader Kim Jong-un standing before a beach ball-sized silver sphere purportedly representing a shrunken warhead. South Korea declared North Korea’s claim an “intolerable direct challenge” to the world.

“The right to make a preemptive nuclear strike is by no means a monopoly of the U.S.,” the Korean Central News Agency said, paraphrasing Kim during his visit with North Korean engineers working on the project. “If the U.S. imperialists infringe upon the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s sovereignty and right to existence with nuclear weapons, it will never hesitate to make a preemptive nuclear strike at them.” Given North Korean secrecy, the claim is impossible to verify.

But in light of North Korea’s inexorable push to develop a nuclear-carrying intercontinental ballistic missile—and the bizarre cult-of-personality dynasty that runs the Hermit Kingdom, starving millions and jailing thousands of political prisoners—the obvious question is simple: should the U.S. take the lead in taking down Pyongyang’s nuclear menace by force?


Nuclear experts have been saying for years that North Korea might be able to shrink a nuclear warhead. That’s critical, because a smaller warhead translates into longer range. The non-profit Institute for Science and International Security said in 2013 that North Korea still would need “to conduct missile flight tests with a re-entry vehicle and mock warhead, increase the explosive yield of the warhead, possibly requiring its further miniaturization, and improve the operational reliability of the warhead and missile” to be sure its missile would work.

While that may be the path followed by most nations, North Korea is hardly a normal country. Corner-cutting, especially if the nation perceives itself as threatened, could accelerate that process. With the U.S. and South Korea now conducting a huge military exercise, and new sanctions recently imposed on North Korea, it’s no wonder that Pyongyang is feeling beleaguered. Only hours after North Korea announced its alleged miniaturization breakthrough, a U.S. artillery brigade launched a barrage of rockets close to the border town of Cheorwon, something bound to jangle North Korean nerves even more.

The U.S. has built a missile shield in Alaska and California dedicated to the threat posed by North Korean rockets. The Pentagon voiced confidence Tuesday in its ability to down any incoming North Korean warheads. “The United States has not seen North Korea demonstrate a capability to ......read

http://ourtimeiscome.com/2016/03/10/is-it-time-to-attack-north-korea/

wetin concern u and north korea now

Raphael81:
wetin concern u and north korea now

hahahahaha my bro leave am. Him don drop local politics to international.

The US dare not attack a nuclear armed country with 1 million standby army ready to overrun the peninsula. Remember that the US was only able to attack Iraq days after Saddam gave up his long and medium range missiles. Same thing with Gaddafi in Libya, having stopped work on his nuclear weapons program.
The empire of chaos is not just a bully but a cowardly scumbag.

seagulsntrawler:
The empire of chaos is not just a bully but a cowardly scumbag.

No doubt! But I would have wanted her to attack North Korea so that a global power restructuring could be carried out.

Imagine a world without Amerika or a world with a war-torn, crippled & toothless Amerika?

Zoharariel:
No doubt! But I would have wanted her to attack North Korea so that a global power restructuring could be carried out.

Imagine a world without Amerika or a world with a war-torn, crippled & toothless Amerika?

It is getting very close with each passing day as more countries dump the worthless dollar and with so many obsolete and overrated military hardwares we can safely assume that the end is nigh for the empire of chaos