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Experts Are Skeptical Of North Korea’s Claim That It Has An H-Bomb

Jong-un made the statement during an arms industry inspection at a weapons manufacturing site in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, as well as through state-run media, according to the Washington Post.

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The site, known in North Korea as the Phyongchon Revolutionary Site, was visited several times by founding president Kim Il Sung, the current leader’s grandfather, and by his father, Kim Jong Il.


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North Korea has carried out three underground nuclear tests before, but experts cast doubt over the latest suggestions.


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North Korea has now developed a hydrogen bomb and can use it along with nuclear warheads to defend its sovereignty, the Russia Today channel reported while quoting country’s central news agency.

“While there are no indications that a nuclear test is imminent, the new tunnel adds to North Korea’s ability to conduct additional detonations over the coming years if it chooses to do so”, 38 North said.

The upgraded facility could be used to launch long-range missiles twice the size of the 30-meter-long Unha-3 that put a satellite into orbit in December 2012, South Korean military and intelligence officials told Yonhap News on Friday.

“There are a lot of issues to discuss between the South and North. (We) will do our best to resolve them one at a time, step by step”, said Hwang Boogi, South Korea’s vice minister of unification and the head negotiator for the talks, before leaving for Kaesong.

Analysts in recent years have believed that North Korea may have been working toward – but didn’t yet have the capability to produce – a hydrogen, or thermonuclear, bomb.

Kim’s state has conducted at least three nuclear tests since 2006.

In a paper published in May, Lee Chun-keun, a senior researcher at the Science and Technology Policy Institute of South Korea, said North Korea acquired laser nuclear fusion equipment from China in the 1980s and that it might be developing a reinforced nuclear weapon from nuclear fusion.

North Korea’s closest ally China has assumed the role of peacekeeper in the peninsula with North Korea and South Korea still technically at war after their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a treaty.

This would be very bad news if true.

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UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman kicked off the meeting and said that “the global community has a collective responsibility to protect the population of the DPRK and to consider the wider implications of the reported grave human rights situations for the stability of the region”. “Their main aim is to demand the global community to recognize the country as a nuclear state, and to further stress they will not abandon the nuclear weapons”.

White House officials on Thursday said it was doubtful that North Korea had developed a hydrogen bomb