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The Pentagon believes that North Korea possesses nuclear warheads, which can be used as a ballistic missile warheads. This was Congressman Doug Lambourne told members of the House Armed Services Committee, sends P osbalt.
According to Lambourne, it is about the open part of a secret CIA report, the Ministry of Defense, which was prepared in March. The document says that the intelligence community to «reasonably safe to assume that North Korea now has nuclear weapons that can be delivered with a ballistic missile.» Range and characteristics of such other tactical missiles in the open part of the report does not specify, according to online media.
North Korea has conducted three nuclear tests, but experts noted that the establishment of an appropriate warhead for a ballistic missile requires special technologies that Pyongyang probably does not have.
Recall the last nuclear test North Korea successfully conducted in February. Along with the launch into space of the North Korean rocket, which was paid in December 2012 it caused a very negative reaction of the U.S. and South Korea as well as the international community through the United Nations, which imposed new sanctions on Pyongyang. Seoul and Washington, in turn, held joint military exercises, which Pyongyang said threats of military strikes.
Last week, North Korea\’s supreme military command said that the country is ready to inflict on American soil pre-emptive military strike with the «compact, lightweight, and a variety of» nuclear weapons. DPRK military stressed that the plan is approved by the military operation, and units transferred in full combat readiness. On the eastern coast were relocated two missile complex medium-range type «Musudan».