South Korea’s military is reporting its northern neighbor now has enough material to make 10 nuclear warheads, Time magazine reported Thursday. The South bases the startling information on Pyongyang’s estimated 50-kg stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium and the reckoning each warhead would require an average of 4 to 6 kg of nuclear material, the report said. On Wednesday, the Korea Times – citing Seoul’s 2016 Defense White Paper – reported the North’s plutonium stash has risen from 40 to 50 kg over the last two years. North Korea was able to increase its supplies of nuclear materials by reprocessing its spent fuel rods, the report said. A South Korean defense ministry official who was not...
