NEW CLAIM BY NORTH KOREA – AT 9:22 A.M. ET:   Even John Kerry made a minimal effort last week to lecture North Korea on its behavior.   North Korea's response was this, from Fox: 

North Korea claimed Wednesday that it has manufactured nuclear warheads small enough to fit on the head of a nuclear submarine, an announcement that is likely to rachet up tensions in east Asia, particularly with South Korea.

According to Yonhap News, a spokesman for North Korea's National Defense Commission said that the development of the alleged weapons was part of an initiative to boost Pyongyang's self-defense capability.

"It is long since the DPRK's nuclear striking means have entered the stage of producing smaller nukes and diversifying them," the spokesman said, using the acronym of North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. "The DPRK has reached the stage of ensuring the highest precision and intelligence and best accuracy of not only medium- and short-range rockets, but long-range ones."

If the North's claim is true, it presents a fresh threat to the security of South Korea and Japan, as well as the United States. Pyongyang has previously claimed that it has the technology to build a nuclear weapon small enough to fit on an intercontinental ballistic missile, which could reach the U.S. mainland.

COMMENT:  There may well be exaggeration in the North Korean claims.  But the direction of North Korea is not in doubt.  They have the atomic bomb despite "agreements" with the West not to go nuclear.  They have missiles and have fired them.  If they don't have all the capability they claim, they will have it, while Barack Obama stands by and does nothing.

Who will pay the price?  Our children, and their children.  Obama by that time will have his own Mount Rushmore.

May 20,  2015