Sunday, September 3, 2017

"North Korea nuclear test: Hydrogen bomb 'missile-ready'"

Via Instapundit: The secretive communist state said its sixth nuclear test was a "perfect success", hours after seismologists had detected an earth tremor.

Pyongyang said it had tested a hydrogen bomb - a device many times more powerful than an atomic bomb.

Analysts say the claims should be treated with caution, but its nuclear capability is clearly advancing.

North Korea last carried out a nuclear test in September 2016. It has defied UN sanctions and international pressure to develop nuclear weapons and to test missiles which could potentially reach the mainland US.


South Korean officials said the latest test took place in Kilju County, where the North's Punggye-ri nuclear test site is situated.

The "artificial quake" was 9.8 times more powerful than the tremor from the North's fifth test, the state weather agency said.

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4 comments:

edutcher said...

The Norks say a lot.

chickelit said...

Who else -- besides the Norks -- is feeling these quakes?

chickelit said...

Our first H-bomb test involved a humongous refrigeration unit, designed to contain the "hydrogen." That's was before the discovery of the suitcase convenience of lithium deuteride.

Leland said...

It's not the power of the H-bomb, but that since it is powerful, you can make it smaller. If they indeed successfully tested an H-bomb; then ooh-boy. I blame Clinton for funding it.