Will a nuclear arms race in the Middle East lead to a Sunni-Shiite nuclear showdown with Israel caught in the middle? Will a nuclear-armed North Korea, which expert David Albright estimated in a CNN interview last year could already have “10 to 15 nuclear weapons,” lead to South Korea, Japan, and possibly even Taiwan, feeling a need to develop a defensive nuclear arsenal? Will Pyongyang link its latest nuclear test to further long-range missile tests, as it did in 2006, 2009 and 2012-13? Whatever further nuclear secrets Kim Jong Un has up his sleeve, he has, definitely left his mark on the new year of 2016.
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