North Korea Has Two Nuclear Warheads for Missile, Kyodo Reports
March 31st, 2009Forget the grain of salt. Take it with a 5 KG salt lick, like I give my cows.
Anything is possible, but because of the timing, this sounds like preaction PSYOP to me. Just guessing.
Via: Bloomberg:
North Korea has two nuclear warheads it can load on its mid-range Rodong missile, Japan’s Kyodo News reported, citing an analyst at the International Crisis Group, a non-government organization.
The warheads were built using plutonium extracted from North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear plant, Kyodo reported, citing Daniel Pinkston, who said he got the information from a government official without divulging which country.
South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials have obtained evidence of the warheads, Pinkston told Kyodo.
North Korea said earlier this month it plans to fire a rocket carrying a satellite into orbit between April 4 and 8. South Korea and the U.S. suspect the launch is a cover for a test of a long-range ballistic missile, which would be a breach of a United Nations resolution.
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no evidence necessary…
An American analyst said yesterday in Seoul that intelligence officials believe North Korea has produced several nuclear warheads.
Daniel Pinkston, a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, said intelligence agencies ?believe the North Koreans have assembled nuclear warheads for [mid-range] Rodong missiles,? according to Agence France-Presse. That missile has a 1,300-kilometer (800-mile) range – long enough to hit Japan.
?It might be right, it might be wrong. But if others believe it is true, it has implications for the psychological aspects of deterrence,? he added, without identifying his sources.
Pinkson told AFP that the North has apparently placed the operation and maintenance of the five to eight nuclear weapons under the control of an organ separate from the army and directly run by leader Kim Jong-il.
In a separate story on Japan?s Kyodo News, Pinkston said the warheads were built using plutonium extracted from North Korea?s Yongbyon nuclear plant.
very convenient, though