North Korea has between six and ten nuclear weapons, according South Korea’s Minister of Unification, Hyun In Taek.
Hyun offered the analysis in response to a question by Grand National Party lawmaker Lee Cheol Woo during a National Assembly hearing yesterday, specifying that the figure relates only to plutonium-based weapons.
In February it was suggested that North Korea also possesses between 30 and 50 kilos of plutonium, enough for a further four to seven weapons.
In 2008, Barack Obama said that North Korea had approximately eight weapons.
