The announcement on state television came less than a month after North Korean leader Kim Jon Un claimed his country had developed a hydrogen bomb. The United States and others quickly discounted that claim.
A hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear bomb, is far more powerful than a atomic bomb.
North Korea conducted three previous nuclear tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013. All of them took place at the Punggye-ri site, the same area where several monitoring agencies detected man-made earthquake activity on Wednesday morning.
The test prompted emergency national security meetings in South Korea and Japan.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned North Korea's test, calling it a serious threat to Japan's national security.
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- Earthquake M 5.2 - NORTH KOREA - 2016-01-06 01:30:01 UTC ..... local time: 10:30...
- Magnitude mb 5.2
Date time 2016-01-06 01:30:01.1 UTC
Location 41.32 N ; 129.10 E
- Depth 2 km
- 350 km SE of Jilin, China / pop: 1,881,977 / local time: 09:30:01.1 2016-01-06
- 77 km SW of Ch’ŏngjin, North Korea / pop: 327,000 / local time: 10:30:01.1 2016-01-06
- 27 km E of Sŭngjibaegam, North Korea / pop: 11,786 / local time: 10:30:01.1 2016-01-06
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North Korea said on Wednesday it had carried out a “successful” hydrogen bomb test, a claim that – if true – massively raises the stakes over the hermit state’s banned nuclear programme...
ReplyDeleteIn a surprise announcement Pyongyang said it had carried out a hydrogen blast.
“The republic’s first hydrogen bomb test has been successfully performed at 10:00 am on January 6, 2016, based on the strategic determination of the Workers’ Party,” a state television news reader said.
A hydrogen, or thermonuclear device, uses fusion in a chain reaction that results in a far more powerful explosion than the fission blast generated by uranium or plutonium alone.
Last month, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un had suggested Pyongyang had already developed a hydrogen bomb—although the claim was greeted with scepticism by international experts.
North Korea has hinted before at the possession of “stronger, more powerful” weapons, but Kim’s remarks were believed to be the first direct reference to an H-bomb.
The announcement by North Korean state media came two days before Kim’s birthday and just over four years after he succeeded his father as leader of the Stalinist state......france24.com
White House vows appropriate response to N. Korea 'provocations'..,
ReplyDeleteA 4.9-magnitude earthquake jolted the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday morning, the China Earthquake Network Center (CENC) said...
ReplyDeleteThe tremor struck at 0130 GMT at a depth of 0 km, with its epicenter initially determined to be at 41.3 degrees north latitude and 129.1 degrees east longitude, according to the CENC alert.
http://www.china.org.cn/world/2016-01/06/content_37466426.htm
La communauté internationale condamne fermement l'essai nucléaire nord-coréen..
ReplyDeleteL'annonce, par Pyongyang, de la réussite de son premier essai nucléaire avec une bombe à hydrogène, a fait vivement réagir la communauté internationale. La France a notamment fustigé une "violation" des résolutions du Conseil de sécurité.
L'annonce par la Corée du Nord de la réussite, mercredi 6 janvier, de son premier essai nucléaire avec une bombe H a rapidement suscité la condamnation de la communauté internationale.
À Washington, le Conseil de sécurité nationale de la Maison Blanche a condamné les "provocations" du régime nord-coréen, auxquelles les États-Unis répondront "de façon appropriée". Mais la Maison Blanche n'était pas en mesure de "confirmer dans l'immédiat" l'essai nord-coréen ni s'il concernait une bombe H, que Pyongyang affirme avoir "miniaturisée".
La France condamne une "violation inacceptable des résolutions du Conseil de sécurité" et appelle "une réaction forte de la communauté internationale"....france24.com