“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Trump told journalists at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey. The US assessment also estimated the North Korean nuclear arsenal has now reached as much as 60 warheads, substantially more than earlier assessments. Before taking office, Trump vowed that North Korea would not develop an ICBM during his presidency. North Korea may have ability for miniaturised nuclear warhead, Japan says Read moreLewis argued it was already too late for that. “It is conceivable that North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme has already considerably advanced and it is possible that North Korea has already achieved the miniaturisation of nuclear weapons into warheads and has acquired nuclear warheads,” the Japanese defence ministry document said.

Source: The Guardian August 08, 2017 19:59 UTC