RUSSIA SAYS NORTH KOREA POSSIBLY POSSESSES 20-30 NUCLEAR BOMBS

Source Link

North Korea has developed the necessary scientific and industrial basis for manufacturing nuclear weapons and might be possessing 20 to 30 nuclear devices at the moment, former Chief of Staff of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces (RVSN) Col. Gen. Viktor Yesin said. “At the present time, the DPRK possibly possesses 20-30 implosion-type nuclear devices,” Yesin said at a conference of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe on Tuesday. North Korea finished the modernization of its nuclear weapons industry in 2015 and now possesses delivery vehicles whose ranges vary from 65 to 1,300 kilometers, Yesin said. The DPRK uses the nuclear warheads it currently possesses to arm its air bombs and ballistic missile warheads, he said. “The DPRK nuclear weapons industry can manufacture up to seven nuclear warheads a year” and could potentially increase this production to ten nuclear warheads a year, Yesin said.