First, there is the age old question, does North Korea have nuclear weapons?
The judgment of the US intelligence community in 1993 was that “there was a better than even chance that North Korea had one or two nuclear weapons.” That reflected fairly good information that it had enough plutonium for one or two weapons and not so good knowledge about whether it could build a bomb. Doubt whether our intelligence today is any better on North Korean bomb-making. But the key point here is that North Korea has been at work on this for at least two decades if not more. That is more than enough time to accomplish the task unless they are totally incompetent. Some would argue that North Korea needs to conduct a nuclear test to build a bomb and it has not done that yet. THIS IS WRONG. The fact is that through computer simulations and other high explosive tests, it is perfectly feasible to build a weapon without a nuclear test. This is the unanimous judgment of bomb-builders I have talked to. Second, can North Korea deploy nuclear weapons on ballistic missiles? The judgment
