North Korea now apparently has the capacity to make 10 nuclear bombs

If you thought 2017 might bring a little more stability to the world, you were wrong.

Aside from Donald Trump being in charge of the nuclear codes, North Korea is now said to have 50kg of plutonium – enough to make 10 nuclear bombs.

That is 10kg MORE than the 40kg estimate from 2014.

The claims were made by South Korea, who alarmingly also said that the figures do not include material generated by North Korea’s programme of secretly enriching uranium.

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The notoriously secretive state of North Korea – led by the tyrannical Kim Jong-un – recently reactivated it Yongbyon nuclear power plant that is the source of plutonium for the country’s nuclear weapons programme.

Jong-un also stated earlier this month that the country is in the “final stages” of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile.

In a sign of defiance against North Korea’s enemies, the dictator said that the country was now a “military power of the East that cannot be touched by even the strongest enemy”.

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