Japan is drafting a white paper on defense for 2017, for release next month

  • The report is said to warn that the threat from North Korea is rising to a new level
  • Citing the country's progress on both its nuclear & missile development programs
  • In 2016 it described "a serious and imminent threat" but will uses stronger wording in its 2017 report

Via Nikkei

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ps. A couple of days ago reports circulated about NK having more plutonium available for weapons than previously thought. Reuters here: North Korea may have more nuclear bomb material than thought: U.S. think tank