North Korea says it has developed more-advanced hydrogen bomb: KCNA
Source: Reuters
North Korea said on Sunday it has developed a more advanced nuclear weapon that has great destructive power and leader Kim Jong Un inspected a hydrogen bomb that will be loaded on a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
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Experts and officials have said North Korea could conduct its sixth nuclear test at any time, and that the reclusive country has maintained a readiness at its nuclear test site to conduct another detonation test at any time.
The hydrogen bombs power is adjustable to hundreds of kilotons and can be detonated at high altitudes, with its indigenously produced components allowing the country to build as many nuclear weapons as it wants, KCNA news agency said.
Kim visited the countrys Nuclear Weapons Institute and watched an H-bomb to be loaded into new ICBM, KCNA said. All components of the H-bomb were homemade and all the processes ... were put on the Juche basis, thus enabling the country to produce powerful nuclear weapons as many as it wants, he said.
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doc03
(35,454 posts)China or Russia. If it is really true.
psychopomp
(4,668 posts)Russian scientists helped NK build the nukes, Chinese companies helped them with the missile tech. Neither were explicitly state-sponsored, however.
True Dough
(17,391 posts)There will be "fire and fury" now?
Let's hope not.