North Korean media report only official news, and any other version of events can’t be spoken about openly. As a small country, we have suffered in the past, but now we have got a hydrogen bomb, there is nothing greater than this.
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In an editorial, the state-run Global Times newspaper appeared to defend North Korea’s defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons, saying there will be “no hope” for Pyongyang to give up its nuclear ambitions unless South Korea, the US and Japan change their policy toward the North.
The leaders of the three countries, who have long sought to project a united front against the North Korean nuclear threat, spoke by phone a day after Pyongyang’s shock announcement that it had tested its first hydrogen bomb.
During a telephone discussion on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, “There can not be business as usual” after North Korea’s fourth nuclear test.
Seoul restarted propaganda broadcasts at noon Friday, two days after Pyongyang claimed to have succeeded in testing a hydrogen bomb.
The South stopped earlier broadcasts after it agreed with Pyongyang in late August on a package of measures aimed at easing animosities were among a variety of punitive measures being considered. It affects clients, potential buyers and service providers to 120 South Korean businesses in the North Korean border city. South Korean experts say the test’s impact range can stretch as far as 300 kilometers, and the test site is only 110 kilometers away from Changbai Mountain, which is called Baegdu-san in Korean.
Fusion is the main principle behind the hydrogen bomb, which can be hundreds of times more powerful than atomic bombs that use fission.
Protesters took to the streets in Seoul to denounce North Korea’s reported nuclear testing. North Korea is thought to have a handful of rudimentary nuclear bombs and has spent decades trying to ideal a multistage, long-range missile to carry smaller versions of those bombs.
To build its nuclear program, the North must explode new and more advanced devices so scientists can improve their designs and technology.
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USA aircraft created to detect evidence of a nuclear test, such as radioactive particulate matter and blast-related noble gases, could be deployed from a US base on the Japanese island of Okinawa.
