Over the course of the debate as to what we should about this, a great deal of attention has been paid to a couple of things. One is the miniaturization of Kim’s increasingly powerful nukes and whether or not he can fit them on his rockets. The second is the advanced designs of the ICBMs themselves and how he mastered the technology so fast. But there’s a third factor I hadn’t been considering until I began reading some coverage of the question at the Boston Globe. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to hurl a missile that far and the fuel required to power such a flight is both volatile and hard to manufacture. Where did Kim get it?
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