[Brilliant]

Every time they test a bomb, they use up some of their uranium or plutonium. But apparently, they have a considerable stockpile.

[clearcarbon]

Collaboration. NorK may just be a test facility.

[Uncle Miltie]

Recall, they collapsed the whole mountain in which they performed the tests ….

[Beowulf9]

Isn’t Kim Jong Un 5 foot something. Gee. I wonder if that made him feel ‘big’.

[gandalftb]

NK is getting better at blowing themselves up.

[USS Alaska]

The tests were in 2017, and it took two years to determine the approximate size of the blast?

I don't believe it for a single minute. We knew within days.

[StAnDeliver]

China has undergone total revolution Every hundred years or less It’s in their blood Self-loathing grimace behind the smile Norks with thermo dev only hurts China, China literally does not care they are heedless. Kiron Skinner nailed it, in an overlooked speech:

”The ideological fight with the Soviet Union was a new type of conflict but was "within the Western family," which allowed for some dialogue and eventually Moscow's agreement to the 1975 Helsinki Final Act. Those accords included human rights provisions that Skinner said "opened the door really to undermine the Soviet Union, the totalitarian state, on human rights principles." What set off pro-China academics and pundits were Skinner's comment that similar dialogue and openings are not possible with China. "This is a fight with a really different civilization and a different ideology—and the United States hasn't had that before, nor has it had an economic competitor the way that we have," she said. "So in China we have an economic competitor, we have an ideological competitor, one that really does seek a kind of global reach that many of us didn't expect a couple of decades ago, and I think it's also striking that it's the first time that we will have a great power competitor that is not Caucasian."

[BenLurkin]

Pure speculation here: Iran is funding the program, running the program, and supplying the material.

North Korea is only a test site for Iran.

[COBOL2Java]

From 2006 to 2016 North Korea steadily increased the size of the events, from somewhere around 1 kiloton up to around 20 kilotons.

Did Barky ever bow to Kim?