South Korea estimates that Kim Jong-un has plutonium for more than a dozen atomic bombs.

The South Korean military estimates that North Korea holds about 70 kilograms of plutonium, enough to make more than 10 atomic bombs, according to a defense ministry white paper released Thursday.

The calculation is higher than the 50 kg plutonium that was estimated in last year’s edition.

The book also notes that stocks of highly enriched uranium in North Korea is “significant”, without providing additional data.

The analysis also highlights the achievements of the regime Kim Chen In to develop longer-range solid-propellant ballistic missiles.

Currently mode Kim Chen In it uses only three medium-range solid-propellant missiles (with a range of about 2,000 kilometers), two of them for submarines (SLBMs).

In its plan for the modernization of weapons, approved in 2021, North Korea he set out to develop a solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which greatly simplifies and makes it safer to store and launch a projectile.

At the parade with which North Korea marked the 75th anniversary of its army on February 8, the regime presented exactly the proposed new solid-propellant ICBM, although it has not yet tested it.

“They are our enemies”

In the Defense White Paper, a document published every two years, South Korea calling a neighboring country an “enemy”, something that has not happened in six years.

“Since the North has identified us as a “undoubted enemy” at the plenum of the Central Committee of the ruling party in December 2022 and continues to pose a military threat without abandoning its nuclear program, the regime and the army North Korea They are our enemies,” the document says.

Relations between Seoul and Pyongyang have deteriorated sharply over the past two years, especially since conservative Yoon Seok-yeol came to power in the South in May 2022.

last year mode Kim Chen In it carried out about fifty missile launches, a record number, in many cases in response to military maneuvers by the South and the United States and the deployment of strategic Pentagon assets on the Korean Peninsula.

(As reported by EFE)

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