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Re:North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S... by bitL on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:17PM (#14960835)
It's different if you have baby nukes you can't launch, and if you have MIRV ICBMs with mastered launch from submarines; i.e. one submarine capable of wiping out the whole west coast. There was recent noise that NK is testing (so far unsuccessfully) submarine launch for their new ICBMs; once they are successful, it stops being kindergarten stuff but a global issue.
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Re:North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S... by throwasehasdwi on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:32PM (#14963582)
They have nukes and working ICBM's... It's not that hard to put the two together.

Submarine launch is harder and the warheads must be smaller, but ICMB's are already considered unstoppable so it doesn't matter.

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