H-Bomb or no H-bomb, nuclear weapons are the country's insurance policy, and the test was a sign that it has no intention of cashing it in.
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But based on what we know so far, here's the bottom line: North Korea probably tested an H-bomb, just not the kind of H-bomb you're thinking of.
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"We cannot deny it was an H-bomb test," Onodera said.
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An H-bomb test presents a serious dilemma for world leaders.
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" Kim Jong Un's regime went further: "The H-bomb test was carried out to examine and confirm the accuracy and credibility … of [an] H-bomb to be placed in the payload of the [intercontinental ballistic missile].
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The North claims it tested its first H-bomb in the Jan.
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The H-bomb test was carried out to examine and confirm the accuracy and credibility of the power control technology and internal structural design newly introduced into manufacturing H-bomb to be placed at the payload of the ICBM.
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In January, Kim ordered an H-bomb test just days before his birthday.
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Making bigger bows and stronger arrows will never lead to an H-Bomb.
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H-bomb test; radioactive clouds at the Bikini Atoll on May 21, 1956.
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We won't know if it's an actual 'H-bomb' until radiation is detected.
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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 test were accurate and scientifically verified the power of smaller H-bomb.
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Days after Warmbier's arrest in January, Pyongyang claimed to test its first H-bomb.
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US Pacific Command's statement following seismic activity/North Korean claims of H bomb test. pic.twitter.
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It has not been confirmed that North Korea has successfully tested a miniaturized H-bomb.
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The North claimed the device it tested was a thermonuclear weapon — commonly called an H-bomb.
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TIMELINE: How North Korea went nuclear If not an H-bomb, what could North Korea have?
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Related: Kim Jong-un Says North Korea Has an H-Bomb — But No One Believes Him
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Related: Kim Jong-un Says North Korea Has an H-Bomb — But No One Believes Him In a broadcast announcing the alleged H-bomb test, North Korean state media said it was "an act of self-defense" against the US and other perceived threats to the country.
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Seismic readings showed that North Korea's claimed H-bomb test was probably only an enhanced atomic bomb.
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"Whether it was a full H-bomb or not it is still a worrying development," he said.
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"One would have expected the yield (from an H-bomb) to have been far greater," he said.
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Even a failed H-bomb test would have resulted in an explosion of 10 to 50 kilotons.
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The progressive case, the H-bomb nuclear -- nuclear plans, these are all protected by the First Amendment.
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Cramer added this box in light of the recent news from North Korea detonating an H-bomb.
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The country claims that an atomic test it carried out early this month was an H-bomb.
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And after that H-bomb stunt lil Kim pulled this week, things are definitely tense in the peninsula.
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With the development of an H-bomb, reclusive North Korea would be that much more of a threat.
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North Korea may have been testing something in between the A-bomb and H-bomb, a "boosted" weapon.
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The perfect success in the H-bomb test for ICBM that shook the earth is its eloquent proof.
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Ashley Manta facetiously refers to it as "dropping the H-bomb" — telling new partners that she has herpes.
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Yong Ho did not specify where or how high North Korea's hypothetical Pacific "H-bomb" test might occur.
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"At that point they may be able to tell whether it's a quote unquote H-bomb," she said.
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Many years later, scientists calculated that for the movie's plot to work — the H-bomb splitting the Earthbound asteroid in two with enough energy to completely change the course of the two chunks — it would have to be a billion times more powerful than the largest H-bomb ever built.
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In an H-bomb, conventional explosives compress and detonate a conventional fission bomb, triggering a powerful secondary fusion device.
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In January, just days before his birthday, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un ordered an H-bomb test.
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In that scenario, the greater efficiency of an H-bomb becomes a key factor for North Korea's mad scientists.
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Here are the answers to seven key questions: What's the difference between an H-bomb and an atomic bomb?
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The Defense Department assesses that on January 2628, 28500, North Korea may have tested components of an H-Bomb.
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However, preliminary evidence collected by US allies in the region seems to indicate the test wasn't an H-bomb.
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North Korea's official news agency issued a statement shortly afterward saying its H-bomb test caused the seismic rumbles.
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Could Kim be under pressure to attempt a second H-bomb test and fuel the possibility of a nuclear catastrophe?
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North Korea's test on Wednesday measured 221 kilotons, which is far from the power a true H-bomb would release.
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Beijing's state media has also said it "cannot support" claims of an H-bomb test, and that further analysis required.
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READ: How North Korea's nuclear program went from threats to reality READ: Does North Korea really have an H-bomb?
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The pair exchanged pleasantries via a faked Hendo H-Bomb and Jones retaliated with a mock spinning elbow in return.
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Could Kim be under pressure to attempt a second h-bomb test and fan the possibility of a nuclear catastrophe?
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Doubts over H-bomb claims North Korea bragged about the "spectacular success" of its first hydrogen bomb test on Wednesday.
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NOIRE'S EVE 3 Location: Complex Headliners: Franck H-Bomb, Black Eyed, Dark Crystal, Nowhere Girl An NYE dark music extravaganza.
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The political cartoonist Herblock — homing in on Mr. Laird's balding, oval head — sometimes depicted him as a human H-bomb.
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By succeeding in the H-bomb test in the most perfect manner to be specially recorded in history the DPRK proudly joined the advanced ranks of nuclear weapons states possessed of even H-bomb and the Korean people came to demonstrate the spirit of the dignified nation equipped with the most powerful nuclear deterrent.
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The test on Wednesday is said to have produced an explosion too small to be called that of an H-bomb.
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But it may not yet be able to make a more destructive H-bomb small enough to fit on a missile.
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In January, North Korea announced it had obtained "the H-bomb of justice" after a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in the area.
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Although North Korea does not actually have an H-bomb, its bravado has triggered a global reaction as if it did.
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The quake that followed whatever detonation occurred, several sources said, was far smaller than what a formidable H-bomb would create.
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"He played a tremendous role," said Terumi Tanaka, secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations.
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In particular, monitors will be looking for isotopes of a gas called xenon, which is typically present in H-bomb reactions.
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Museum literature and a tour guide explain how Sakharov was stunned by the might of a Soviet H-bomb test in 1955.
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North Korea now has the strength to "wipe out" the United States "in a moment" with an H-bomb, the editorial said.
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If you use the first definition — that a lot of the energy comes from fusion reactions — then you're talking classic H-bomb.
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Nuclear experts say ambiguity also surrounds India's claims to have developed a true H-bomb, based on an underground test in 1998.
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Local pride Skepticism from international experts about North Korea's claim to have conducted its first H-bomb test isn't dampening spirits in Pyongyang.
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It was confirmed that the H-bomb test conducted in a safe and perfect manner had no adverse impact on the ecological environment.
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In the film's most out-of-nowhere image, one character is presented with a picture of the mushroom cloud from an H-bomb.
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And while everyone was worried about North Korea's H-bomb, many people missed a crucial negative event in the market — the rate hike bomb.
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And then you've been hit by this potential war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the Chinese slowdown, and the 'H-bomb' of North Korea.
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The world was first alerted to North Korea's hydrogen bomb developments in January 2016, when it claimed to have created a "miniaturized" H-Bomb.
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The estimated yield and seismic magnitude are too low, somewhat smaller than the 2013 test, a blast too small to be an H-bomb.
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Kim Jong-un said in early December that the country had been developing an H-bomb, but the claim was met with widespread skepticism.
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Some observers will claim that something only counts as an H-bomb if it gets a big chunk of its explosive energy from fusion reactions.
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But such a boosted device, by definition, is not a true H-bomb, even though the added thermonuclear reactions can modestly increase its destructive power.
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The explosion was roughly as big as the atom bomb detonated in 2013; even a failed detonation of an H-bomb would be more powerful.
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During a visit to the country's Nuclear Weapons Institute, Kim "watched an H-bomb to be loaded into new ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile)," it said.
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Kim "watched an H-bomb to be loaded into new ICBM" and "set forth tasks to be fulfilled in the research into nukes", KCNA said.
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of But there's probably no reason to evacuate Austin just yet.
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In an official statement, Pyongyang asserted that its successful H-bomb test meant the nation has now "proudly joined the advanced ranks of nuclear weapons states."
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But the international skepticism surrounding Pyongyang's H-bomb claim did nothing to dampen the celebratory mood in the North Korean capital in response to the test.
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"With the perfect success of our historic H-bomb, we have joined the rank of advanced nuclear states," North Korean state television said, according to AFP.
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U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said officials could not confirm the H-bomb claims, but stressed that the U.S. condemns violations of Security Council resolutions.
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Experts haven't yet verified whether the weapon was indeed an "H-bomb", though they widely agree that it created an explosion which far exceeded previous tests.
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The energy released by fusion is three to four times greater than the energy released by fission, giving the "hydrogen" bomb, or H-bomb, more power.
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A hydrogen bomb, also called a thermonuclear bomb or an H-bomb, uses a second stage of reactions to magnify the force of an atomic explosion.
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The H-Bomb followed by the most resounding nail in the coffin ever seen in MMA history came out of their first meeting at UFC 100.
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Others, however, might claim that it's an H-bomb if it uses hydrogen isotopes for the bomb part, regardless what contributes what portion of the final energy.
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Even if it wasn't an H-bomb, there's little doubt that North Korea did conduct a new significant nuclear test despite persistent calls not to do so.
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North Korea claims it has H-bomb as U.N. discusses human rights abuses CNN's Will Ripley reported from inside North Korea, and Tim Hume wrote from London.
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India claimed to have successfully tested an H-bomb in the late 1990s, but like the North Korean test, that claim has proved to be highly suspect.
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Read More World condemns North Korean H-bomb test "We should look for a substantial increase in direct military interaction between South Korea and Japan," he said.
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"I don't know how to handicap the Saudi Arabia and Iran war, an H-bomb in Korea, so I am not doing anything right here," said Saut.
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South Korea's spy agency also cast doubt on the authenticity of the H-bomb, saying its neighbor may have tested an atomic bomb, The Associated Press reported.
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The first H-bomb test was successfully conducted in the DPRK at 10:00 on Wednesday, Juche 105 (2016), pursuant to the strategic determination of the WPK.
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On Friday, in celebration of the purported H-bomb test and Kim's birthday, North Korea held a massive rally in Pyongyang that included fireworks and choreographed dancing.
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H-BOMB: The Hill's Julian Hattem reports: Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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North Korean state media described the H-bomb as "miniaturized" (or small, according to some translations), which could account for the lesser seismic waves that were recorded.
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It would, however, be rash to assume that North Korea's engineers will not soon be able to pack a miniaturised H-bomb into a robust re-entry vehicle.
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Then, last month North Korea's foreign minister told reporters the regime's leader, Kim Jong Un, was considering "the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb" in the Pacific.
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In conjunction with the contested H-bomb test, South Korean officials reported that its northern neighbor was also running a cyber campaign to plant malware on government networks.
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Ri said the potential test of "the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb" would be one possible "highest-level" action against the U.S., according to the report.
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In conjunction with the contested H-bomb test, South Korean officials reported that its northern neighbor was also running a cyber campaign to plant malware on government networks.
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Is he going to test a weapon, is he going to -- an ICBM, is he going to test an H bomb and how do the Americans react to that.
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Kenneth W. Ford, an American physicist who worked on the nation's first hydrogen bomb and last year published an H-bomb memoir, called the North Korean claim highly suspect.
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The South reactivated its propaganda speakers near its heavily fortified border with North Korea on Friday following Pyongyang's announcement about its purported H-bomb test earlier in the week.
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A close up of that order showed a note, attributed to Kim Jong Un, bearing a hand-written promise to "open 2016 with the thrilling boom of an H-bomb".
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Ronald Reagan basically said, I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-Bomb blast.
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North Korea announced on Sunday that it had successfully conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, using what it said was an advanced hydrogen bomb — or an "H-bomb".
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North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons prompted fears of war last year after it said it tested an H-bomb and developed a missile capable of hitting the United States.
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of "After Sony, everybody realized they're further along than we think they are," Cha said.
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They'd likely have a hard time hitting the US if they did have a big H-bomb, but that's a cold comfort if they just want to nuke Seoul or Tokyo.
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" Asked what he thought of the purported H-bomb test, the 27-year-old said: "I think it is very wonderful, it is a very good result for our country's safety.
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KCNA said on Sunday the scientists and technicians "brought the great auspicious event of the national history, an extra-large event through the perfect success in the test of H-bomb".
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After he retired as a middle school principal, Mr. Tsuboi decided to devote himself to working at the Hiroshima branch of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations.
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The Central Committee the WPK extended warm congratulations to the scientists and technicians in the nuclear field in the northern nuclear test ground on their successful H-bomb test for ICBM.
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The 'H-Bomb' Fizzles: The Harvard Brand Takes a Hit A formerly contrived embarrassment may be ceding to sincere shame and a reassessment of the merits of four years in Cambridge.
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Now, if state media is to be believed, North Korea has dropped a second "H" bomb in one month, this time in the form of a "hangoverless" alcohol called Koryo Liquor.
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The up-and-coming nuclear powers — India, Pakistan, and Israel — may have a grasp on certain types of H-bomb technology, but it's difficult to say what they do or don't have.
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North Korea also said it was capable of miniaturizing the H-bomb, in theory allowing it to be placed on a missile and threatening the U.S. West Coast, South Korea and Japan.
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The notion that North Korea is testing A-Bombs and H-Bomb components, but does not yet have the sophistication to miniaturize warheads and make reentry vehicles for missile delivery is absurd.
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The rest of the movie focused on Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and a couple Space Shuttles' full of roughnecks, who blast off to kick some asteroid ass with an all-American H-bomb.
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of China, North Korea's only major ally, called for the cessation of any action that would exacerbate tension.
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"Threats of an H-bomb test in the Pacific Ocean from North Korea brought an usual knee-jerk reaction across markets overnight," said Saxo Bank's head of currency strategy, John Hardy, in London.
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The moves are the latest in an escalating standoff between the Koreas that began in January when North Korea detonated what it said was an "H-bomb of justice," its fourth nuclear test.
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READ MORE: North Korea claims it has H-bomb as U.N. discusses human rights abuses CNN's Richard Roth, Elise Labott, HyoungJoo Choi, Junko Ogura, Serena Dong and Shen Lu contributed to this report.
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"There are very legitimate reasons for concern," said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at Commonwealth Financial in Waltham, Massachusetts, citing the Saudi-Iran row and the report of North Korea's H-bomb test.
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So we had a shared interest in understanding how energy is created in stars, directly feeding an interest in what kind of H-bomb we were going to make during the Cold War.
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Related: North Korea Just Insulted the US and Bragged About Its New 'H-Bomb of Justice' South Korea continued to conduct high-decibel propaganda broadcasts across the border into the North on Sunday.
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Now, you're likely to find him at karaoke night at a Brooklyn bar where he enthusiastically sings with the likes of regular performers like Badda-Bing Crosby, Be-Bob Deluxe and H-Bomb.
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The music was Bollywood remixes and speed bhangra and, you know, that one hit everyone knows by Punjabi MC. People like Mets and Trix from up in Manchester, DJs like Hanif (H Bomb).
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of Where all this gets crazy is when you consider that one particular country is in both smaller groups.
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But some also said that although North Korea did not yet have H-bomb capability, it might be developing and preparing to test a boosted fission bomb, more powerful than a traditional nuclear weapon.
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The United States, South Korea, Japan and China have been testing for airborne or ground radiation in the region, but say they haven't found any evidence supporting the claim of an H-bomb test.
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Although U.S. officials express doubt that North Korea achieved such a feat -- experts say the estimated size of the blast was not large enough to have been an H-bomb -- tensions have been rising.
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of For starters, North Korea's long-range rocket, the Unha-3, kinda sucks as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
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Successfully testing an H-bomb would be a huge step forward militarily for the North, and a worrying development for Japan, South Korea, and the US, which has several military bases in the region.
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It ended up in the hands of a man named Franck "H-Bomb" Huyghe, who was so inspired that he began Das Bunker as a space to showcase these progressive sounds to the local community.
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An underground nuclear detonation in January, claimed by the regime to be an H-bomb (but more likely a souped-up A-bomb), has been followed by tests of the technologies behind nuclear-armed missiles.
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"The recent test of the H-bomb is the great victory won by the Korean people at the cost of their blood while tightening their belts in the arduous period," Kim was quoted as saying.
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In reality, most experts think the weapon was not the kind of fusion-based city-destroyer we think of when we hear "H-bomb," but rather a less dramatic nuclear weapon, called a boosted fission bomb.
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During that time, the government engaged in H-bomb research and testing, developed industries of bomb shelter construction, and created a "duck and cover" campaign of films and drills about surviving a nuclear attack (as if!).
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If the North Koreans really have great big H-bomb, then, in effect, they don't have any nuclear missiles, because none of their missiles have the ability to sling a giant bomb halfway around the planet.
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And regardless of whether it was truly an H-bomb (and there is considerable skepticism over whether it was) decision makers cannot relax -- there are still serious long-term implications to what took place this week.
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Although U.S. officials have expressed doubt that Pyongyang achieved such a feat — experts say the size of the blast was not large enough to have been an H-bomb — tensions have been rising between the neighbors.
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" 'The recent test of the H-bomb is the great victory won by the Korean people at the cost of their blood while tightening their belts in the arduous period,' " Mr. Kim was quoted as saying.
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Analysis from Norsar, a Norweigan geoscience research foundation, suggests that the explosion created by Sunday's test is far greater than that seen in North Korea's last alleged H-Bomb test, which took place in September 2016.
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" This year, Kim said, North Korea completed its "state nuclear force and thus became the full-fledged nuclear power which possesses the delivery means of various ranges, including the atomic bomb, H-bomb and intercontinental ballistic rockets.
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North Korea called the device the "H-bomb of justice", but its state news agency also said it would act as a responsible nuclear state and would not use its nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty was infringed.
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North Korea also said it was capable of miniaturising the H-bomb, in theory allowing it to be placed on a missile and potentially posing a new threat to the U.S. West Coast, South Korea and Japan.
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The spectacular success made by the DPRK in the H-bomb test this time is a great deed of history, a historic event of the national significance as it surely guarantees the eternal future of the nation.
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"It could be the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb in the Pacific," Yong Ho told reporters at the United Nations in New York on Thursday, according to a story by South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.
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"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," KCNA quoted Kim as saying.
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But if, per conventional wisdom, the North Koreans were unsuccessful with their last nuke test — if North Korea had tried and failed to build a big, high-yield, staged, city-busting H-bomb — then it's a different story.
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In contrast, the United States exploded the world's first H-bomb in 1952 with an explosive yield of 10 megatons, or 10 million tons of TNT -- that is almost a thousand times more powerful that the Hiroshima bomb.
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UFC 100 also provided a combat sports moment which will forever be used in highlight reels—Dan Henderson landing his fabled "H-Bomb" on Michael Bisping and delivering one of the most devastating knockouts fighting has ever seen.
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"Are you a scientist or a businessman?" a customer of this Bushwick establishment asked the bartender Darren Grenia, as he used an eyedropper to add a tincture of nutmeg into a Griffin beaker, finishing off an H-Bomb.
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" Days after those words were published, North Korea escalated the nuclear crisis by launching a missile over Japan and testing a thermonuclear H-Bomb warhead that, according to North Korea, is designed for a "super powerful EMP attack.
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of Even China, North Korea's largest trading partner, voiced concern, positioning itself against any moves that might bring instability to the Korean peninsula.
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The closest was two minutes, in 1953, as America pursued a hydrogen bomb and tested its first thermonuclear device, and the Soviets tested their own H-bomb nine months later—a time we're now, apparently, just 30 seconds behind.
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"It is just to have H-bomb as self-defense against the US having numerous and large nuclear weapons" — NK NEWS (@nknewsorg) January 6, 63 The state-owned network KCNA claimed the test was successfully conducted at 10 a.m.
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The state of North Korea's missile program means they'd likely have a hard time hitting the US if they did have a big H-bomb, but that's a cold comfort if they just want to nuke Seoul or Tokyo.
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"Picturing to myself the US, the cursed state of aggression, being submerged in a sea of fire by our H-bomb-loaded ICBM for its slightest provocation, I cannot repress my excitement," Ko Hyok Chol was quoted as saying.
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of After the North's last test, in 2013, the United States sent a pair of nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers over South Korea.
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of Staff at the tour operator said as far as they knew Warmbier had not been in possession of any religious or political literature.
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An intermediate possibility is that the blast came from a "boosted" bomb where atomic bombs ignite brief fusion reactions in H-bomb fuel, adding to the power of the blast, but falling short of a genuine fusion bomb in effect.
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"The DPRK's access to H-bomb of justice ... is the legitimate right of a sovereign state for self-defense and a very just step no one can slander," an official statement from the state-run Korean Central News Agency blared.
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"We know the Americans may come back with many more sanctions but in response we Koreans will continue shooting up many more missiles and conducting many more H-bomb tests," North Korean shop assistant Han Myong Sim told CNN's Will Ripley.
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"Unpardonable is the puppet group's act of totally suspending the operation in (Kaesong), finding fault with the DPRK's H-bomb test and launch of a satellite," the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said, referring to South Korea.
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"The DPRK's H-bomb test ... is a self-defensive step for reliably defending the peace on the Korean Peninsula and the regional security from the danger of nuclear war caused by the U.S.-led imperialists," it quoted Kim as saying.
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As part of North Korea's work to build an arsenal of viable nuclear ICBMs that can reach the U.S. mainland, Kim inspected during a visit to the North's Nuclear Weapons Institute the loading of a "homemade" H-bomb into an ICBM.
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Getting Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear missile programs has been the aim of all international negotiations with North Korea since the early 1990s, yet last year it tested what is widely believed to have been an H-bomb and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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"This year, we have passed the final gate of completing the state nuclear force and thus became the full- fledged nuclear power which possesses the delivery means of various ranges, including the atomic bomb, H-bomb and intercontinental ballistic rockets," he said.
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The first of those survivors, Sunao Tsuboi, a chairman of the Hiroshima branch of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations, gripped Mr. Obama's hand and did not let go until he had spoken to him for some time.
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It's a question behind the latest headlines as the world wonders whether the huge explosive Pyongyang fired off really was an H-bomb - the United States government and several experts doubt that - and why it chose to hold an atomic test now.
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Related: You Give Me 'H-Bomb,' I Raise You K-Pop: South Korea Resumes Propaganda Broadcasts The United States and China have both dangled the prospect of better relations, including the lifting of sanctions, if North Korea gives up its nuclear weapons.
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of The UN Security Council strongly condemned North Korea's latest nuclear test on Wednesday, and promised to respond with significant measures against the country, possibly including additional sanctions.
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Essentially, an H-bomb is only limited by the amount of hydrogen within it and can be made as powerful as its builder wishes it to be, making it a big threat should a perceived "rogue" state like North Korea develop one.
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It's been months since Pyongyang has carried out a missile test, and there are some who believe the regime will soon make good on its threat to follow up its alleged H-bomb test last year with a thermonuclear test in the atmosphere.
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The announcement caught the attention of world leaders and nuclear experts far more than its previous nuclear bomb tests because it indicated that North Korea may have developed the capability of creating an "H-bomb" on a much smaller scale than those previously seen.
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However South Korea's Defense Ministry said it was difficult to believe that a fully-fledged hydrogen bomb (H-bomb) had been tested, and nuclear weapons experts told VICE News it was probable that this test was of a device similar to previous weapons tested by North Korea.
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In this context, recent reports that Trump is considering the deployment of so-called "mini-nukes" to the Korean Peninsula are troubling, since he could feel emboldened to order a launch on the belief that the fallout would be less devastating than a huge H-bomb.
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Beginning with a fourth underground nuclear detonation in January (claimed by the regime to be an H-bomb, but more likely a souped-up A-bomb) followed by a number of tests of the technologies behind nuclear-armed missiles, Pyongyang carried out a fifth nuclear explosion on September 9th.
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"The H-bomb, the explosive power of which is adjustable from tens kiloton to hundreds kiloton, is a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack according to strategic goals," KCNA reported in English.
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According to Pyongyang: The H-Bomb, the explosive power of which is adjustable from tens of kilotons to hundreds of kilotons, is a multi-functional thermonuclear weapon with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP attack according to strategic goals.
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North Korea's development of a super-EMP weapon that generates 100,000 volts/meter is a technological watershed more threatening than development of an H-Bomb and ICBM — because even the U.S. nuclear deterrent, the best protected U.S. military forces, are EMP hardened to survive only 50,000 volts/meter.
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of The United States deployed a massive B-52 bomber plane on a low-level flight over its ally South Korea on Sunday, a show of force following North Korea's nuclear test last week.
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of Speaking after the emergency session, Uruguay's ambassador Elbio Rosselli, who is president of the Council during January, said its 15 member states would begin work immediately on a resolution targeting North Korea.
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This helped prove that the directional combination structure and multi-layer radiation explosion-proof structural design of the first system and the second system used for the manufacture of the H-bomb were very accurate and the light thermal radiation-resisting materials and neutron-resisting materials were rationally selected.
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H-bomb explosions are several orders of magnitude larger than the type of nuclear weapons used by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. Those devices, which are relatively crude by modern standards, produced explosions that were the equivalent of less than 20 kilotons of TNT.
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In 1971, when the United States detonated an H-bomb deep beneath the Alaskan island of Amchitka, the colossal upheaval of earth that it caused was typical for a class of weapons whose destructive power is roughly a thousand times greater than the atom bomb that leveled Hiroshima in 1945.
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"Jealous of the successful test of our first H-bomb, the U.S. and its followers are driving the situation to the brink of war, by saying they have resumed psychological broadcasts and brought in strategic bombers, " Kim Ki Nam, head of the ruling Workers' Party propaganda department, said at Friday's rally.
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Read More North Korea: We now have the 'H-bomb of justice' "This may add — in a slightly more quiet way rather than an extremely public way — to the drive to have greater intelligence-sharing between the three countries," Rodger Baker, vice president of Asia Pacific Analysis at Stratfor, said.
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"All components of the H-bomb were 100 percent homemade and all the processes ranging from the production of weapons-grade nuclear materials to precision processing of components and their assembling were indigenously developed, thus enabling the country to produce powerful nuclear weapons as many as it wants," the report said.
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The DPRK's access to H-bomb of justice, standing against the U.S., the chieftain of aggression watching for a chance for attack on it with huge nukes of various types, is the legitimate right of a sovereign state for self-defense and a very just step no one can slander.
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The test re-confirmed the precision of the compression technology of the first system of the H-bomb and the fission chain reaction start control technology and proved once again that the nuclear material utility rate in the first system and the second system reached the levels reflected in the design.
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Symmetrical compression of nuclear charge, its fission detonation and high-temperature nuclear fusion ignition, and the ensuing rapidly boosting fission-fusion reactions, which are key technologies for enhancing the nuclear fusion power of the second-system of the H-bomb, were confirmed to have been realized on a high level.
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of Beyond the intensified war of words, the fallout from the North's nuclear test has included a push by the US and its allies to tighten the economic sanctions that have already been imposed on Pyongyang.
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READ MORE: Opinion: North Korea doesn't have an H-bomb 'Provocation' "Our military is prepared for various types of North Korea's provocation and is ... closely and continuously observing any signs of North Korea's long-range missile launch," Kim Min-seok, South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman, told reporters at a regularly-scheduled press conference.
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North Korea claimed at the time that the device was a hydrogen bomb, which it called the "H-bomb of justice," although experts said that there was no evidence that the explosion was a hydrogen bomb.. The launch of a long-range rocket in February prompted even tighter United Nations sanctions against the country.
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The last North Korean nuclear test, in 2013, also registered at 5.1 on the USGS scale, and the similar seismic activity caused by the recent blast fueled speculation that North Korea may have detonated a nuclear weapon similar to the ones it tested previously, then tried to pass it off as an H-bomb.
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Read: We Asked an Expert if the World Needs to Worry About North Korea's H-Bomb Claims In an hour-long trial Wednesday, North Korea's highest court sentenced a college student from the University of Virginia to 15 years hard labor for trying to steal a propaganda poster from his Pyongyang hotel, as the Associated Press reports.
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Last week, South Korea resumed broadcasting propaganda across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) via loudspeakers following Pyongyang's claim of a successful H-bomb test, which has been hotly disputed by its neighbors and the U.S. Jeong said that Seoul believes North Korea will "respond to our loudspeaker broadcast," but did not elaborate on what kind of response was expected.
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Of course, your style and your choice of sexual partner comes down to personal taste: One man's sexy Jessica Simpson T-shirt is another man's dating Kryptonite; another woman's Len "Steal My Sunshine"-era sunglasses are an aphrodisiac second to none while someone else's beaded necklace could torpedo their hopes like an anti-romance H-bomb.
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"He solemnly declared that the development of new strategic weapon systems including A-bomb, H-bomb and ICBM Hwasong-15 with indigenous efforts and technology and the realization of the great cause of completing the state nuclear force serve as a great historic victory of our Party and people of the country," North Korea's state media added citing Kim.
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of The chairman of South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff warned that North Korea was likely to carry out further "sudden provocations," a South Korean defense ministry official said, while the commander of the 28,500 US troops in South Korea, General Curtis Scaparrotti, urged them to be vigilant.
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Related: You Give Me 'H-Bomb,' I Raise You K-Pop: South Korea Resumes Propaganda Broadcasts Meanwhile, CNN reported from Pyongyang on Monday that a Canadian pastor serving a life sentence in North Korea for subversion said he spends eight hours a day digging holes at a labour camp, while a naturalized American citizen said he is being held by the state for spying.
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The test helped draw the conclusion that the Korean-style analytic method and calculation programs for the complicated physical processes occurring in the first and second systems were put on the high level and that the engineering structure of the H-bomb as a nuclear warhead designed on the Juche basis including the structure of the nuclear charge of the second system was creditable.
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" Just a few years later, however, while serving on another panel of experts asked to advise the United States government on whether to proceed with development of the hydrogen superbomb, Fermi joined with his longtime friend and fellow physics Nobel laureate, Isidor Rabi, in condemning the prospective H-bomb as a weapon "which in practical effect is almost one of genocide," and "necessarily an evil thing considered in any light.
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Of particular interest were the detonation in September of a possible H-bomb—a huge leap in terms of sheer nuclear kilotonnage—as well as November's maiden voyage of the impressive Hwasong-15 missile, which looks like it could place a warhead anywhere in the US. Every step North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has taken into the nuclear big leagues has been met by a provocation from Trump.
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The perfect success in the test of the H-bomb for ICBM clearly proved that the Juche-based nukes of the DPRK have been put on a highly precise basis, the creditability of the operation of the nuclear warhead is fully guaranteed and the design and production technology of nuclear weapons of the DPRK has been put on a high level to adjust its destructive power in consideration of the targets and purposes.
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of Victor Cha, the top adviser on North Korea to former President George W. Bush and the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told VICE News in a recent interview that even if Pyongyang doesn't have a hydrogen bomb or a nuclear warhead, the fact that they're expressing the desire to develop those weapons is cause for concern.
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The minister said the potential test of "the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb" would be one possible "highest-level" action against the U.S. (CNBC)*North Korea leader Kim says 'deranged' Trump 'will face results beyond his expectation' (CNBC)*Trump signs order aiming to cut off funding for North Korean missile program (CNBC) Hurricane Maria barreled toward the Turks and Caicos this morning after lashing Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands with winds and rain that destroyed homes, flooded streets, devastated economies and left at least 2000 people dead.
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The agency reported the new H-bomb could be fitted onto an intercontinental ballistic missile, which experts believe would be able to reach the US. Norway's NORSAR geoscience foundation estimated the size of the blast at 120 kilotons of TNT on Sunday, six times larger than last year's North Korean test and roughly the same amount larger than the 1945 atomic bomb explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki that killed more than 225,000 people at the end of World War II. Arms control expert seismologists reacted with dismay to the size of the blast over the weekend.
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Two days after their H-Bomb test, on September 2202, Pyongyang also released a technical report "The EMP Might of Nuclear Weapons" accurately describing a "super-EMP" weapon generating 2628,28500 volts/meter: In general, the strong electromagnetic pulse generated from nuclear bomb explosions between 6900 kilometers and 2628 kilometers above the ground can severely impair electronic devices, electric machines, and electromagnetic grids or destroy electric cables and safety devices…This electromagnetic pulse forms a strong electric field of 28503,22019 volts per meter when it approaches the ground, and that is how it destroys communications facilities and electricity grids…the discovery of the electromagnetic pulse … in the high-altitude nuclear explosion test process has given it recognition as an important strike method.
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