Posted on 01/05/2016 8:26:48 PM PST by Mariner
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea said Wednesday it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test, a defiant and surprising move that, if confirmed, would put Pyongyang a big step closer toward improving its still-limited nuclear arsenal.
A television anchor read a typically propaganda-heavy statement on state TV that said North Korea had tested a "miniaturized" hydrogen bomb, elevating the country's "nuclear might to the next level" and providing it with a weapon to defend against the United States and its other enemies.
The statement said the test was a "perfect success."
The test, if confirmed by outside experts, will lead to a strong push for new, tougher sanctions at the United Nations and further worsen already abysmal relations between Pyongyang and its neighbors.
North Korean nuclear tests worry Washington and others because each new blast is seen as pushing North Korea's scientists and engineers closer to their goal of an arsenal of nuclear-tipped missiles that can reach the United States.
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I guess Lil’ KimJong has finally found religion.
I hear this was the moment of his conversion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdkOGH52_ms
again
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I think maybe Kim-Um-JunkIl passed gas.
Our intelligence people are too busy reading your email, listening to your phone calls, and reading Facebook to learn what you do at night.
That's my reaction, although I seem to recall that there is a spectrum of fusion "enhanced" devices, short of a dominate fusion reaction, so maybe there is some technical basis for this claim, however thin.
This is why I was telling you that Japan and South Korea must resolve the comfort women, issue because they both have to deal with the China-North Korea-Pakistan- Russia axis.
You’re link doesn’t work.
Yeah, because doesn’t a Hydrogen bomb (fusion) require a fission reaction to initiate the fusion reaction? Have they had a successful fission test? Don’t recall other than a couple of failed attempts with lots of conventional explosives that would have been for a fission test.
He was first and only one.
Urkel must have been studying the Ron Brown funeral recording.
Doesn’t sound like an H-bomb.
The 5.1 magnitude quake indicates a yield of only around 45 kilotons - in the ballpark of their earlier tests.
It could have been a dud H-bomb - a fission trigger explosion that failed to produce the fusion explosion.
Or they might have been exaggerating their claim.
Thank You very interesting stuff.
One detonated in a third-nation-flagged tramp freighter near the port of New York will crash our economy and take most of the rest of the world with it. Just one.
They only *need* one.
Our Pershing II missiles had a thermonuclear yield of 5-50KT. Selectable.
The Minuteman III ICBM carries 100KT warheads.
And, I don't think we have ever seen a 45KT fission weapon.
Unlikely to be any sign of the explosion on the test site surface except for extremely trace radioisotopes over time.
URL correction. Also see previous comment (video about test shot).
S. Korean Lawmaker, “Russia might have given N. Korea know-how of miniature nukes”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717327/posts
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