SEOUL, (APP/AFP) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un
said his country has successfully miniaturised a thermo-nuclear
warhead, as Pyongyang on Wednesday continued to talk up its nuclear
strike capabilities amid rising military tensions on the Korean
peninsula.
While the North has boasted of mastering miniaturisation
before, this is the first time Kim has directly claimed the
breakthrough that experts see as a game-changing step towards a
credible North Korean nuclear threat to the US mainland.
His comments came a day after the North’s powerful National
Defence Commission threatened pre-emptive nuclear attacks on South
Korea and the US mainland, as Seoul and Washington kicked off
large-scale joint military exercises.
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Kim Jong-Un says N. Korea has miniaturised nuclear warheads
