North Korea Pursuing Smaller Nukes, South Says -- Global Security NewswireSouth Korea's defense minister today said that North Korea is attempting to prepare nuclear warheads small enough to be fitted onto missiles or loaded into bombers, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Nov.1).
Pyongyang is "constantly seeking to make its nuclear weapons smaller" for potential fielding by aircraft or ballistic missiles, Kim Tae-young said to legislators in Seoul.
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Update: N.Korea seeks to develop smaller nuclear warheads: minister -- Space War/AFP
My Comment: Getting information and intelligence out of North Korea is next to impossible. I do not know if the defense minister is speculating, but even if his information is partially accurate, this is a very disturbing development and one that should not surprise us.