News Snapshot:
North Korea now has 20 nuclear warheads at most, a leading international security think tank said on Monday, at a time when concerns are growing in the Asia-Pacific region that Pyongyang could conduct a nuclear test any time soon. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) gave the estimates for this year for “the number of actual assembled warheads North Korea possesses”. Figures released in previous years referred to the number of warheads that it could build with the amount of fissile material (material that can sustain a nuclear fission chain reaction) it has produced. The estimates for North Korea...
