New York Post:

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could be amassing a deadly nuclear arsenal that could reach 242 weapons and dozens of intercontinental ballistic missiles by 2027, according to a chilling report released Tuesday.

The Seoul-based Asan Institute for Policy Studies and the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, California, warned that negotiations alone are unlikely to be effective in reducing the threat — and instead called for measures such as deploying tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea, UPI reported.

The think tanks’ joint report — titled “Countering the Risks of North Korean Nuclear Weapons” — estimates that the rogue regime had developed between 67 and 116 nuclear weapons by 2020, with a stockpile expected to grow by 12 to 18 weapons a year until 2027.

“Despite some ROK and US efforts to enhance defense and deterrence, there is a growing gap between the North Korean nuclear weapon threat and ROK and US capabilities to defeat it,” the report said, referring to the Republic of Korea, the official name of South Korea…

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