On December 6-7, the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe’s supervisory council held a meeting in London, moderated by Vladimir Dvorkin and Viacheslav Kantor. Dvorkin, a retired major general in the Russian armed forces, declared that North Korea’s tactical nuclear weapons had reached a state of full effectiveness.

Dvorkin specifically stated that North Korea was currently capable of outfitting tactical rockets with nuclear warheads, citing available data.

The revelation of the former Russian soldier-turned-scholar coincides with an assertion from the highest levels of the Russian government that Moscow intends to cooperate with Washington on global nuclear security. Yet the