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What's clear, both analysts say, is that the North is working quickly toward its ultimate goal: a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on top of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). And it's making pretty good progress.
A series of photos released by North Korea's propaganda apparatus earlier this March is perhaps the best example of how views are changing. It shows the country's current dictator, Kim Jong Un ,
the son of Kim Jong Il, posing in front of a shiny silver ball placed atop a chintzy red tablecloth.
The ball is supposed to be a miniaturized nuke, capable of fitting on a missile. But, as with many North Korean photos, it looks kind of silly.
"A lot of people started calling it the disco ball," Hanham says. There were disco inferno jokes on Twitter.
But as experts started to analyze the pictures more closely, they weren't laughing. The ball on the table was obviously a model, but many of the details were reasonably close to a real miniaturized warhead.
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http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/03/21/470976577/why-analysts-arent-laughing-at-these-silly-north-korean-photos
A series of photos released by North Korea's propaganda apparatus earlier this March is perhaps the best example of how views are changing. It shows the country's current dictator, Kim Jong Un ,
the son of Kim Jong Il, posing in front of a shiny silver ball placed atop a chintzy red tablecloth.
The ball is supposed to be a miniaturized nuke, capable of fitting on a missile. But, as with many North Korean photos, it looks kind of silly.
"A lot of people started calling it the disco ball," Hanham says. There were disco inferno jokes on Twitter.
But as experts started to analyze the pictures more closely, they weren't laughing. The ball on the table was obviously a model, but many of the details were reasonably close to a real miniaturized warhead.
..."
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/03/21/470976577/why-analysts-arent-laughing-at-these-silly-north-korean-photos
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