(Daily Mail) – North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warheads and made them small enough to fit on ballistic missiles, Japan believes. Tokyo defense chiefs warn in a new white paper that North Korea’s military activities pose a ‘serious and imminent threat’. In last year’s report, Japan said it was ‘possible’ that North Korea had achieved miniaturization, but Tokyo now appears to have upgraded its assessment, according to Japanese newspaper Yomiuri. Japan is seen as a ‘primary target’ of nearby North Korea’s weapons capabilities and fears that Pyongyang’s nuclear program is ‘growing unabated’, experts say. The latest
findings come alongside newly-released pictures which suggest a North Korean plant may be leaking hazardous waste into a nearby river. The Japanese report highlights the lack of progress on denuclearisation talks, said Vipin Narang, a nuclear affairs expert at MIT. ‘It is Japan that is most threatened, and probably the primary target of such a capability,’ he said. ‘So openly acknowledging it underscores Tokyo’s acute fears that North Korea’s nuclear program continues to grow unabated with no foreseeable plan to slow its growth, let alone eliminate them.’ READ MORE
