North Korea develops missile-ready nukes, everything’s gonna be fine

This is normal, everything is normal, the world isn’t speeding towards World War III: Nukeageddon at all, nope.

North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment.

The new analysis completed last month by the Defense Intelligence Agency comes on the heels of another intelligence assessment that sharply raises the official estimate for the total number of bombs in the communist country’s atomic arsenal. The U.S. calculated last month that up to 60 nuclear weapons are now controlled by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Some independent experts believe the number of bombs is much smaller.

The findings are likely to deepen concerns about an evolving North Korean military threat that appears to be advancing far more rapidly than many experts had predicted. U.S. officials last month concluded that Pyongyang is also outpacing expectations in its effort to build an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking cities on the American mainland.

Trump, in his characteristic poise, called for everyone to remain calm threatened to obliterate the mad little trigger-happy despot in North Korea:

President Trump, speaking at an event at his Bedminster, N.J. golf course, said North Korea will face a devastating response if its threats continue.

“They will be met with the fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before,” Trump said.

And of course, Kim Jong-un took it in stride threw it right back in the US’s own mad little trigger-happy despot’s face:

North Korea's military is "examining the operational plan" to strike areas around Guam with medium-to-long-range strategic ballistic missiles, state-run news agency KCNA said early Wednesday local time.

This can only end well.

Y’know, tonight I’m going out for a rare cinema evening. Tomorrow we’re celebrating my brother’s birthday with a nice restaurant supper.

It’d be nice if the unstable and belligerent leaders of two nuclear-armed regimes didn’t blow up the world in the meantime.