North Korea celebrates supposed hydrogen bomb test

North Korean leader Kim Jon Un (second from r.) inspects a “homemade” hydrogen bomb.
(KCNA/REUTERS)


North Korea lauded its sixth and strongest nuclear weapons test yet as a “complete success.”
Pacific Rim leaders rushed to condemn North Korea as the isolated nation boasted in a televised address that it had developed a hydrogen bomb outfitted for intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Photos of Kim Jong Un personally inspecting a supposed thermonuclear weapon preluded the test, which the U.S. Geological Survey detected through a 6.3-magnitude earthquake at around 12:30 p.m. local time.
Seismologists described the seismic activity as an “explosion.” A second tremor, clocking in a 4.1-magnitude and categorized as a “collapse,” was recorded minutes later at the same location.
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