Responding to this week’s claim by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that the reclusive state is ready to unleash a hydrogen bomb, a State Department spokesperson called on the already heavily sanctioned Pyongyang to “comply with its global commitments and obligations”.
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The announcement was made during Kim Jong Un’s inspection of the Phyongchon Revolutionary Site, a historical spot for North Korea’s arms industry.
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Thursday, KRT showed still photos of Kim looking around the site, but did not specify the date of visit.
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One thing can not be denied that no one outside a close circle of experts and leaders in Pyongyang knows about the development made in the North Korea’s nuclear programme.
“We do not believe that North Korea, which has not succeeded in miniaturizing nuclear bombs, has the technology to produce a hydrogen bomb”, the official said.
Pyongyang has wanted the resumption of tour to North Korea’s scenic resort of Mount Kumgang.
Hydrogen bombs, or H-bombs, are even more powerful than atomic weapons because they gain their detonating powers from nuclear fusion.
John Nilsson-Wright, head of the Asia program at Chatham House, said it was “hard to see convincing technical evidence” of Kim’s claim, adding that North Korea had used plutonium in nuclear tests and a leap to thermonuclear capability would be surprising. Frequently the North has been threatening to destroy the South. “We don’t have any information that North Korea has developed a hydrogen bomb”, Yonhap news agency quoted unidentified “intelligence” official from South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), as saying.
The vice minister-level dialogue, held in the Kaesong joint industrial zone on the North Korean side of the border, was the fruit of crisis talks in August to ease sky-high military tensions on the divided peninsula.
Jeffrey Lewis of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies added to Reuters that he thinks it’s “unlikely” North Korea has actually developed a hydrogen bomb.
The United Nations Security Council will discuss the human rights situation in North Korea on Thursday, as defectors and victims of torture complain that not enough has been done since the publication of a landmark report in 2014.
An expert who spoke to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency responded skeptically.
The rivals, technically still at war after their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a treaty, had all but cut ties since early 2010, when a South Korean navy ship was sunk by a torpedo that Seoul said was sacked from a North Korean submarine.
North Korea was marking the 70th anniversary of its ruling Workers’ Party.
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Wang Junsheng, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said Kim’s announcement is not helpful as it may lead to further isolation of the DPRK in the worldwide community.
