North Korea's next challenge after testing a nuclear warhead is to make one small enough to fit to a missile -- a tricky undertaking, experts say, but one that might not take long if it has the requisite know-how.
"They've got to get the weight down to about 500 to 700 kg (1,102 to 1,543 lbs), which I would have believed is perfectly possible with knowledge that is available today," said Duncan Lennox, editor of Jane's Strategic Weapons Systems.
"It would be about 1.5 meters (4 ft 11 in) tall, a cone, with a base diameter of 0.8 to one meter."
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