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North Korea claims to have ‘miniaturised’ warheads

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un said the country has miniaturised nuclear warheads to be mounted on ballistic missiles, the North’s KCNA news agency reports.

“The nuclear warheads have been standardised to be fit for ballistic missiles by miniaturising them,” KCNA quoted him as saying as he inspected the work of nuclear workers, adding “this can be called true nuclear deterrent”.

The comments were Jong-Un’s first direct mention of the claim previously made repeatedly in the country’s state media to have successfully miniaturised a nuclear warhead to be mounted on a ballistic missile. The claim is widely questioned.

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He also inspected the nuclear warheads designed for thermo-nuclear reaction, KCNA said, referring to a hydrogen bomb that the country claimed to have tested in January.

North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test on January 6 and claimed it was a successful hydrogen bomb test, which was disputed by many experts and the governments of South Korea and the US.

The UN Security Council imposed harsh new sanctions on the isolated state last week for the nuclear test, and Pyongyang has stepped up its belligerent rhetoric through state media.

Last week Jong-Un ordered his country to be ready to use nuclear weapons at any time in the face of growing threats from enemies.

Topics: North Korea
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