A nation must think before it acts.
Associate Scholar Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein Quoted by TRT World on North Korea’s Nuclear Program
On Sunday, September 3, 2017, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK – North Korea) staked its claim to join a very exclusive and very dangerous club, states with hydrogen bombs.
The nuclear test, measured on seismic monitors, caused an “explosion” of 6.3 magnitude – larger than any previous tests – and so powerful that a Chinese scientist warned the mountainous blast zone could implode leaking radiation across the region.
Observers monitoring satellite imagery of Punggye-ri military testing site below Mount Mantap spotted landslides caused by the explosion of the bomb, which analysts say had a yield of between 50 and 120 kilotons, at least eight times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during WWII.