I think a hydrogen bomb test is very unlikely, even if they've bought one from another country. They'd want to keep that very expensive item for the real deal, not waste it on this game of dick flashing.
Most likely they'll just do an upgraded version of the last test. (Dear Leader Nuke 2.0) Their scientists need time to make adjustments and figure out what didn't work so well with the last test, but I doubt the government is going to give them as much time as they need to get it right, so we'll see how it works.
On a side note, there was a thread on here recently about the possibility that the NKs had the help of scientists trained in Russia in designing a tunnel that does a good job of canceling out the P-waves. I'm not sure how much truth there is to that, but it's an interesting possibility.
That might be difficult to do with a 9mm migraine....
"On a side note, there was a thread on here recently about the possibility that the NKs had the help of scientists trained in Russia in designing a tunnel that does a good job of canceling out the P-waves. I'm not sure how much truth there is to that, but it's an interesting possibility.
Interesting indeed. They would spend that much time and money on hiding the telltale signs of a nuke warhead test, and yet tell the whole world they were doing a test of a nuke.
Or spent the money gambling we would believe it was a dud because of their expensive P-wave canceller.
Must have been corbomite. Everyone knows the P-wave canceller only works on corbomite.
P.S. BOSE, Inc. wants to talk to NK about it's P-wave canceller for their next ACOUSTI-MASS AMP.