Report: North Korea Added 20 Nukes to Its Arsenal in 2023

Breitbart.com reports: “North Korea is believed to possess 50 nuclear weapons – 20 more than in the past year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) revealed in its annual report published on Monday on global militaries.

SIPRI’s ‘Yearbook 2024 Armaments, Disarmament and International Security’ report assesses the known arsenals of nuclear states as well as global military development. It once again found that the vast majority of known nuclear weapons are in the possession of America and Russia, but that communist China is making significant efforts to expand and modernize its own arsenal. Notably, the report documented ‘the first time China is believed to have some warheads on high operational alert’ in 2024.

In its section on North Korea, SIPRI warned that evidence suggests communist dictator Kim Jong-un is ‘putting new emphasis’ on Pyongyang’s nuclear assets…”

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