North Korea made a bold claim on Wednesday about its ability to create nuclear warheads so small they could be attached to a missile. This development, if substantiated, would be evidence of the country's advanced military technology and the threat it poses to the rest of the world, The Huffington Post reported.
The government in Pyongyang is known to exaggerate its technical capabilities, and the latest assertion comes amid concerns over its supposed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile earlier this month.
But if Kim Jong Un's government is known to be developing a nuclear weapons program and missile technology, it won't be long before North Korea combines the two through "miniaturization," analysts believe.
North Korea's highest military authority National Defense Commission (NDC) - Kim Jong Un, its chairman, said that it had the ability to create a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on an intercontinental ballistic missile, intended to be fired at the mainland of the United States of America, according to the The Washington Post.
"It is long since [North Korea's] nuclear striking means have entered the stage of producing smaller nukes and diversifying them," a representative for the NDC said in a statement released to North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
South Korea's Yonhap News Agency translated the KCNA report, which further said "[North Korea] has reached the stage of ensuring the highest precision and intelligence and best accuracy of not only medium- and short-range rockets, but long-range ones,"
The report also stated that the supposed submarine-launched missile test was part of North Korea's "byungjun" policy, through which Pyongyang aims to advance it's nuclear weapon technology and its economy, according to The Boston Globe.
