Recent Chinese estimates of North Korea’s nuclear-weapons capabilities should have shattered our complacency about Pyongyang’s proliferation threat.Moreover, given the ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, Tehran’s longstanding, close working relationship with Pyongyang should also have rung alarm bells around the world.
Instead, the revelation that the North might already possess 20 nuclear warheads, and could double that in 2016, quickly sank from view. (READ MORE)