Kim Jong-Un inspecting landing and anti-
landing exercises of the Korean People’s Army
at an undisclosed location in North Korea
North Korea can fire a nuclear warhead at
South Korea, Japan, China and Russia on a
medium-range missile, Seoul said yesterday.
landing exercises of the Korean People’s Army
at an undisclosed location in North Korea
North Korea can fire a nuclear warhead at
South Korea, Japan, China and Russia on a
medium-range missile, Seoul said yesterday.
In a new assessment of Pyongyang’s capability
a South Korean official claimed that the
country could attack its southern enemy with
nukes.
North Korean despot Kim Jong Un said last
month his country had miniaturised nuclear
warheads to mount on ballistic missiles – the
first time he publicly made such a claim.
The anonymous South Korean official said:
“We believe they have accomplished
miniaturisation of a nuclear warhead to mount
it on a Rodong missile.”
The Rodong missile can fire a 1 tonne warhead
as far as 1,250 miles, putting all of South
Korea, most of Japan and parts of Russia and
China in range.
The official added: “We believe they have the
ability to mount a nuclear warhead on a
Rodong. Whether they will fire it like that is a
political decision.”
The South’s conservative president, Park Geun-
hye, has taken a hard line against the north
since it conducted its fourth nuclear test on
January 6 and then launched a long-range
rocket into space. Both actions sparked new
UN sanctions.
Rodong missiles, developed from Soviet-era
Scud missiles, make up the bulk of the North’s
short- and medium-range missile arsenal with
an estimated stockpile of 200.
Experts have predicted that the delivery vehicle
for the North’s first nuclear warhead would be
the medium-range Rodong missile- rather than
an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM),
which the North has yet to test.
Despite threats to strike the mainland United
States, the North is seen as several years
away from building an Inter-Continental
Ballistic Missile carrying a nuclear warhead.

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