N Korea Can Produce 'Mini-Nukes', Increases Missile Accuracy - Reports
09:58 20.05.2015(updated 10:37 20.05.2015)
Pyongyang's military potential reached the next level, according to Yonhap.
TOKYO (Sputnik) – North Korea has announced that it has been able to produce "mini-nukes" and has increased target accuracy of its long-range missiles, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday.
"Our nuclear strike potential have long ago reached the level of essential miniaturization and diversification, and the increase in accuracy and intellectual ability of not only our short- and mid-range missiles, but also our long-range missiles have reached a level guaranteeing the maximum probability of striking the target," Yonhap cited a representative from North Korea's Defense Committee as saying.
This announcement comes less than two weeks after North Korean media reported that Pyongyang had carried out an as-yet-unconfirmed test of a ballistic missile launch from a submarine. Commenting on that news, an unnamed South Korean official told the Independent that Pyongyang could develop a fully functional ballistic missile submarine in two years.
North Korea declared itself a nuclear power in 2005 and has conducted several underground nuclear weaponry tests. In response, the United States and the United Nations inroduced sanctions against Pyongyang.
On Thursday this week the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had been scheduled to visit a special economic zone on the inter-Korean border, Kaesong, which would have made him the first UN chief to visit North Korea in 20 years. Early on Wednesday Pyongyang retracted, without explanation, permission for the visit.
© Sputnik
|
NEWSLETTER
|
| Join the GlobalSecurity.org mailing list |
|
|
|
