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In reply to the discussion: Ok, this s the most tense I remember things [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)Let alone a deliverable nuke. Let alone a reliable delivery vehicle for anything, let alone a nuke.
Their last so-called test had the explosive yield of 6 Ktons, well within the range of conventional explosives, especially if you're gonna explode it underground where there is no limit to size. Any idiot can bury a weapon and blow it up; it takes considerable know how to weaponize it so that an airplane can deliver it, and considerably more expertise to put it on a missile.
This is, after all, rocket surgery... Er, brain science... Er, you know what I mean.
I highly doubt that North Korea has either a nuke, let alone a missile to deliver one. They can't even feed their fucking people.
There's no indication that their so-called nuclear tests were anything but duds.
But they can probably make a big mess of the Korean Peninsula if they wanted to. This time I don't think they could bank on help from the Chinese or Russians. I sincerely hope NK's leaders realize that, for everybody's good.