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North Korea claims it has hydrogen bomb; experts skeptical
CNN ^ | December 10, 2015 | Jason Hanna and Tim Hume

Posted on 12/10/2015 2:07:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

State media indicated Thursday that North Korea has added the hydrogen bomb to its arsenal, a development that, if true, would represent a major leap in its nuclear weapons capabilities.

But outside observers were skeptical, saying that such an advance in the country's nuclear technology seemed unlikely.

Analysts in recent years have believed that North Korea may have been working toward -- but didn't yet have the capability to produce -- a hydrogen, or thermonuclear, bomb. It can be hundreds of times more powerful than an atomic bomb....

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan
KEYWORDS: china; dprk; hbomb; hydrogenbomb; japan; korea; nkorea; norks; northkorea; obamalegacy; pyongyang; republicofkorea; test; thermonuclearweapons; worldwarthree
And a space shuttle, I assume.
1 posted on 12/10/2015 2:07:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh , sounds like Obama is about to announce he’s made a Deal with the young un


2 posted on 12/10/2015 2:08:45 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So are we going to ban Koreans from coming into the USA now ?


3 posted on 12/10/2015 2:08:51 PM PST by American Constitutionalist ( because the Constitution matteHow canrs.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems a fusion bomb isn’t that much harder than a fission one.
Not _easy_, mind you, but today I was surprised at how simple the design is.


4 posted on 12/10/2015 2:13:50 PM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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To: butlerweave

Yeah, that’s all good and said, but Trump can make better deals with Un Gong IL ... Sarcasm.

no wait, would Trump ban Koreans from coming into the USA now ?

Or bomb the crap out of Korea, China, Russia because they disagree with THE DON, TRUMP ?


5 posted on 12/10/2015 2:14:13 PM PST by American Constitutionalist ( because the Constitution matteHow canrs.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Although with this twit, they do have plenty of hydrogen sulfide bombs:


6 posted on 12/10/2015 2:18:49 PM PST by twister881
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The first hydrogen bomb America constructed was as big as a house. I seriously doubt the NKs have constructed one. And like another poster just said; the Norks could claim to have flown a space shuttle. LOL! I expect them in the future to claim to have orbited people around the Earth. And maybe landed on the Moon! Hey, where’s that Nork space station these days?


7 posted on 12/10/2015 2:20:28 PM PST by StormEye
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To: KC_Lion

DPRK Ping.


8 posted on 12/10/2015 2:22:54 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They have a hydrogen bomb, they just have to deliver it via ox cart.


9 posted on 12/10/2015 2:23:15 PM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: American Constitutionalist

Your one note is weak.


10 posted on 12/10/2015 2:38:14 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

It’s all he’s got.


11 posted on 12/10/2015 2:46:54 PM PST by mkjessup (This is OUR freakin' Country!! Close the borders to ALL Muslims!! Trump is RIGHT !!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

North Korea STILL doesn’t have food for the citizens!!


12 posted on 12/10/2015 2:49:28 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In reality, he’s a piss-poor chemistry student. But, since he’s dictator for life, not one of his lackeys will correct him, and tell him all he’s really got is a big bag of water balloons...


13 posted on 12/10/2015 3:19:44 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (I got nothin'.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It was just a bad egg roll L’il Un had for lunch.


14 posted on 12/10/2015 3:44:31 PM PST by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You don’t have a hydrogen bomb until you test it......I have one too, just don’t care to show it off.....


15 posted on 12/10/2015 7:35:42 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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