How North Korea made it from Kim's New Year's boast to ICBM

Capt Dwayne Conyers - This is an exceedingly dangerous development. Does anyone have published figures on warhead dimensions and lift capacity of this ICBM? The problem is miniaturization of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons in light of published high explosive shaped charge, fast reactor physics, thermonuclear reaction physics, and coupled nuclear-hydrodynamic simulation codes - together with clusters of cheap fast microprocessors - makes the design and validation of design - merely an iterative exercise in conceptual design, computer modeling, and simulation. The only real controls we have over proliferation are controls over materials that are allowed to be produced in reactors under supervision of international inspection agencies, some international trade sanctions and foreign policy influence discouraging physical device testing, and ultimately armed incursion to kill their designers, engineers, and leaders - and to seize, disable, and destroy their physical facilities, equipment, and materials - including most particularly their nuclear materials and nuclear materials production, chemical separation, refining, handling, and storage facilities. While we don't want to go to war with North Korea, we are fast approaching the point of no return. Warmest Regards, Sandy :)
p.s. John McPhee's 1994 biography of Stanislaw Ulam - The Curve of Binding Energy is a readily available easy to read book with all of the essential design details - and no math - covering nuclear and thermonuclear devices including the key recursive nature of thermonuclear design.

http://www.38north.org/2017/01/yongbyon011817/

Didn't the CIA/NSA at one point have "black" teams that would go in, kill everyone, and shut this shit down while making it look like some horrible accident? What the fuck ever happened to those guys?

Put our Navy out there, Next launch shoot it down and take out the launcher. We thought we were under attack.