quoted from The Washington Post an hour ago
"While few discount North Korea’s progress, some prominent U.S. experts warned against the danger of overestimating the threat. Siegfried Hecker, director emeritus of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the last known U.S. official to personally inspect North Korea’s nuclear facilities, has calculated the size of North Korea’s arsenal at no more than 20 to 25 bombs. Hecker warned of potential risks that can come from making Kim into a bigger menace than he actually is.
“Overselling is particularly dangerous,” said Hecker, who visited North Korea seven times between 2004 and 2010 and met with key leaders of the country’s weapons programs. “Some like to depict Kim as being crazy — a madman — and that makes the public believe that the guy is undeterrable. He’s not crazy and he’s not suicidal. And he’s not even unpredictable.” unquote
As information, whether false or true, is being spread around the world of N Korea's having fit a nuclear warhead small enough to fit into an ICBM delivery system, we must hold our responses. Open threats between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump in the news bother me. What ever happened to "speak softly and carry a big stick?" The difference in 20 known nukes and 60 possible nukes are astronomical, so find out what we are dealing with. Can he travel at high speeds out of and back into the earth's atmosphere? Can we intercept a flurry of his missiles? Can we restrain our response, because we need to. What would our restrained response be? Maybe we are getting ahead of ourselves? Could this be a temptation to get the USA to work over North Korea while we start a third world war? Very possible.
There are many players in place to step beyond their boundaries. Can we help protect everyone while unleashing fire and fury on the North? Better yet, can we stop a well-planned takeover around the world? We can't seem to even agree on whether this guy is crazy or sane. I feel he is merely part of a much bigger scheme we must protect ourselves from getting into.
There are sanctions right now in place against North Korea, Russia, and China. What does one think Russia and China would do should there be a war? We had best consider this.
Many years ago, AQ Khan became the Father of the Islamic bomb. He spread and sold plans and details to other nations. Is there a new AQ Khan spreading nuclear information? If intelligence is being shared, who is sharing it? Is it state-sponsored?
We must ask ourselves many questions. War is very costly. Can the USA remain at the helm of helping other nations remain more secure if we destroy another nation, not knowing which way the winds will prevail in the aftermath? Can we conduct a war with minimal expenses and very limited loss of human life, or do we plan to destroy them all?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_North_Korean_ships
After 9/11, does North Korea even need their ICBM?
What about fallout?
We need the world to stand together. Why weaken the USA when so many players are stationed around the world?