North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reported claimed that his country has developed a hydrogen bomb, representing a potential upgrade to its nuclear arsenal if proven true. This time, they’re claiming that they’ve developed a hydrogen bomb, a thermonuclear weapon that would theoretically make them a legitimate nuclear power.
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The talks came a day after North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un claimed the country had developed a hydrogen bomb.
The talks came a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un said the country had developed a hydrogen bomb – a claim greeted with skepticism by US and South Korean intelligence officials.
The International Atomic Energy Agency in September suggested that North Korea did appear to be strengthening its nuclear program, although it had not been allowed access to the nuclear facilities. The source added: “We do not believe that North Korea, which has not succeeded in miniaturising nuclear bombs, has the technology to produce an H-bomb”. “I think it seems to be developing it”, said Lee Chun-geun, a research fellow at the Science and Technology Policy Institute, according to Yonhap in a report Thursday.
Such apparatus use fusion to generate a blast a lot more strong than a fundamental atomic bomb.
North Korea has a history of making ostentatious claims that can not be substantiated.
Experts do not know if North Korea has been able to build an H-bomb, though it has conducted three atomic tests.
A new sanction was imposed by the UN Security Council after the country threatened a pre-emptive nuclear strike against South Korea and USA following the nuclear test. Penalties on its banking, travel and trade were sanctioned.
A report on 38 North, a North Korea monitoring website run by Johns Hopkins University’s school of advanced worldwide studies in Washington, said the images showed significant construction since April at Punggye-ri, on North Korea’s east coast, where three previous nuclear tests were conducted.
“The situation on the Korean peninsula is very delicate, complex and fragile”, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Huan Chunying told reporters.
“We hope that all sides can do more to maintain peace and stability there”, Hua said.
The band’s “friendship performances”, described by North Korea’s state media, are the latest sign that Pyongyang is trying to mend ties with Beijing after years of strain following the North’s third nuclear test in early 2013.
China is a close ally of desperately poor and reclusive North Korea. “We will do our best to work them out step by step”, Hwang, the chief South Korean delegate, told reporters before boarding a bus to cross a land border into Kaesong.
However, skepticism abounds among South Korea’s intelligence community. “Their goal could be to pressure the global community”.
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The U.S. State Department repeated a call on North Korea to comply with its global obligations and abandon all nuclear weapons.
