North Korea Confirms Successful Testing of Hydrogen Bomb

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> The footage the South Korean TV channel used is actually video of a Soviet hydrogen bomb testing in 1953<br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <br /></div> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="460" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9evregUwlpw" width="660"></iframe> <br /> <br /> <img alt="South Korean Media Uses Soviet Footage of Hydrogen Bomb, Not North Korea's" height="346" itemprop="associatedMedia" src="http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/103275/40/1032754071.png" title="South Korean Media Uses Soviet Footage of Hydrogen Bomb, Not North Korea's" width="640" /><br /> South Korean Media Uses Soviet Footage of Hydrogen Bomb. <a href="http://www.gazeta.ru/army/news/8093159.shtml" target="_blank">Gazeta.ru</a><br /> Over 60-years ago the Soviet Union tested its first hydrogen bomb RDS-6 at the Semipalatinsk test site in Northern Kazakhstan.<br /> <br /> <img alt="File Photo: South Korean men pass by a TV news program showing images published in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper of North Korea's ballistic missile believed to have been launched from underwater and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 9, 2015" height="340" src="http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/102276/94/1022769475.jpg" title="File Photo: South Korean men pass by a TV news program showing images published in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper of North Korea's ballistic missile believed to have been launched from underwater and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 9, 2015" width="640" /> <br /> <div class="b-inject__copy"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"> © AP Photo/ Ahn Young-oon</a></div> <br /> <div class="b-inject m-inject-min"> <div class="b-inject__media"> <img alt="North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on a national memorial day in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang December 17, 2015" height="340" src="http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/103225/37/1032253785.jpg" title="North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on a national memorial day in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang December 17, 2015" width="640" /></div> <div class="b-inject__copy"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"> © REUTERS/ KCNA </a></div> <div class="b-inject__content"> <i>North Korea Confirms Successful Testing of Hydrogen Bomb</i></div> </div> Earlier in the yesterday, South Korean media reported that a strong earthquake occurred in North Korea near Phungeri nuclear test site in Yangkang Province. Subsequently, North Korea confirmed in an official statement it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. North Korea declared itself a nuclear power in 2005 and conducted a series of underground nuclear weapon tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013. Pyongyang's nuclear program has caused deep concern of the international community and prompted the UN Security Council to slap a series of sanctions against the country.    <br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <br /></div> North Korea has announced that it has <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/328038-north-korea-earthquake-nuclear/" target="_blank">successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb</a> following an “artificial seismic event” that has likely become the country’s fourth known nuclear test.<br /> In a “special and important” announcement at noon, North Korean TV claimed that the country has successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test at 10:00am local time yesterday.<br /> “Through the test conducted with indigenous wisdom, technology and efforts the DPRK fully proved that the technological specifications of the newly developed H-bomb for the purpose of [the] test were accurate and scientifically verified the power of [the] smaller H-bomb,” the statement said.<br /> <br /> “It was confirmed that the H-bomb test conducted in a safe and perfect manner had no adverse impact on the ecological environment,” it added.<br /> The announcement followed the USGS detection of a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of a known Pyongyang nuclear site.<br /> The epicenter of the jolt was located 19 kilometers (12 miles) east-northeast of Sungjibaegam, Ryanggang Province, at a depth of 10 kilometers, according to preliminary data from the US Geological Survey (USGS).<br /> <br /> Similar seismic activity in roughly the same area was recorded on February 12, 2013, prior to North Korea claiming its third successful underground nuclear test.<br /> The “unusual” seismic activity near a “known” North Korean nuclear site seems to be of artificial origin and was a clear sign of a nuclear test, Yonhap reported.<br /> <br /> “The Foreign Ministry is currently holding a meeting presided over by the minister to immediately determine the situation following the reports,” a ministry official said, according to the South Korean news agency.<br /> South Korea’s intelligence agency is analyzing the probability of a fourth nuclear test having taken place, while the National Security Council is preparing to hold a meeting to discuss the issue, Yonhap reported.<br /> <br /> Japan’s chief government spokesman also said the earthquake was “likely caused” by a nuclear test, Reuters reports. Meanwhile a US defense official said the department was “looking into the reports of a possible seismic event near North Korean nuclear facilities.”<br /> <br /> North Korea first declared that it created a nuclear bomb in 2005. Since then, Pyongyang has conducted three known underground tests. The first, conducted in 2006 at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site in the northeast of the country, contained five to 10 kilotons of explosives. It was recorded by seismic stations in Russia, China, Japan, South Korea and Australia.<br /> The second and third tests were conducted in May 2009 and January 2013, increasing the power of the devices tested 10 to 20 kilotons of TNT each.<br /> <br /> North Korea’s 2013 test triggered sanctions from the UN Security Council, which put restrictions on the county’s banking, trade and travel immediately.<br /> Pyongyang also operates a nuclear reactor at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, North Korea’s major nuclear facility, about 90 kilometers from the capital.<br /> <br /> North Korea has repeatedly threatened the use its nuclear weapons in case of a violation of its sovereignty. Last month Pyongyang claimed that it had become a “great nuclear power capable of defending the independence and national dignity of our homeland by mighty nuclear and hydrogen strikes.”<br /> <br /> However, it is not known whether North Korea had managed to develop a nuclear device small enough to be used as a warhead on a ballistic missile.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /></div>

North Korea Confirms Successful Testing of Hydrogen Bomb

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