Testing a live nuclear warhead on an actual ballistic missile is risky from many perspectives, which is why US only did it once in Cold War.
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6. Missile succeeds, but warhead fails/fizzles. Bad for DPRK.
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These accumulated risks are enough that I would think that DPRK would *not* choose to try this.
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There are only a few "good" outcomes here for DPRK, and they'd be hard to judge the probability of occurring versus the others.
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Presumably their military and scientific people are aware of this. If DPRK wants to rattle US, or demonstrate capability, many other ways.
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But ultimately, it's up to them—so who knows? Nations have been known to take bad risks in the past. Including "sane" nations like USA.
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Already done ! New Test
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As they have hinted at it we have to assume the next ICBM will perform this task, and as a result USA has no option but to hit on launch pad
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