Pictures showed Kim in black suit examining a metal casing, with a shape akin to a peanut shell.Īctually mounting a warhead onto a missile would amount to a significant escalation on the North’s part, as it would create a risk that it was preparing an attack. It was a “thermonuclear weapon with super explosive power made by our own efforts and technology”, KCNA cited Kim as saying, and “all components of the H-bomb were 100 percent domestically made”. “If we look at it from Pakistan’s example, the North might be in the final stages” of becoming a nuclear state, he said.īefore the quake the official Korean Central News Agency said that leader Kim Jong-Un had inspected a miniaturised H-bomb that could be fitted onto an ICBM at the Nuclear Weapons Institute. File photo: KCNA.įortnite inaccessible in China as developer pulls the plug He pointed to the fact that Pakistan - whose nuclear programme is believed to have links with the North’s - conducted six nuclear tests in total, and may not have seen a need for any further blasts. “North Korea will continue with their nuclear weapons programme unless the US proposes talks,” Koo Kab-Woo of Seoul’s University of North Korean Studies told AFP. US President Donald Trump has warned Pyongyang that it faces “fire and fury”, and that Washington’s weapons are “locked and loaded”.Īnalysts believe Pyongyang has been developing its weapons to give it a stronger hand in any negotiations with the US.
It has since threatened to send a salvo of rockets towards the US territory of Guam, and last week fired a missile over Japan and into the Pacific, the first time time it has ever acknowledged doing so.
Pyongyang triggered a new ramping up of tensions in July, when it carried out two successful tests of an ICBM, the Hwasong-14, which apparently brought much of the US mainland within range. South Korean President Moon Jae-In summoned the National Security Council for an emergency meeting and Seoul’s military raised its alert level. Tokyo said the tremor was a nuclear blast, which Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had said would be “absolutely unacceptable.”
A new test would be certain to infuriate Washington, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing and others. Pyongyang has long sought the means to deliver an atomic warhead to the United States, its sworn enemy.
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North Korea 'explosion' points to nuclear test - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP CloseĬhinese monitors said they had detected a second quake shortly afterwards of 4.6 magnitude that could be due to a “collapse (cave in)”, suggesting the rock over the underground blast had given way.
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