“I hope various pending issues will be solved one by one”, South Korea’s chief delegate Hwang Boo-Gi told his North Korean counterpart Jon Jong-Su as they shook hands in the morning.
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The development would mark an important progress in North Korean nuclear capacities, if accurate.
Hydrogen bomb uses more advanced technology compared to atomic bomb to produce more powerful blast.it is also known as thermonuclear bomb. “We don’t think North Korea, which has not succeeded in miniaturizing nuclear bombs, has the technology to produce an H-bomb”.
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has said that his country has developed a hydrogen bomb, the latest of several claims that the isolated nation has made about its nuclear capabilities that outside analysts have greeted with scepticism.
After a series of similar claims, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced today on local media that the country had created a hydrogen bomb, to which worldwide experts showed skepticism.
Senior officials from North and South Korea met for talks on Friday to discuss improving ties and resuming cooperation projects, like cross-border tours, stalled amid tensions that have remained high for almost six years. While Kim did make his first on-record reference to a hydrogen bomb, experts said the possibility that North Korea actually possesses one is very slim.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim had made the assertion during a visit to the Phyongchon Revolutionary Site, which honours the works of his father and grandfather, who ruled North Korea before him.
In October 2006, the secretive nation conducted military tests which involved three underground nuclear explosions.
North Korea has already tested three atom bombs, which rely on nuclear fission.
North Korea has lately come up with a threat.
The elephant in the room for any North-South dialogue is Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme.
There is no fixed agenda for this meeting although South Korea is expected to talk about setting up more reunions for families separated between the two Koreas.
“North Korea threatens worldwide peace and security by expanding its nuclear program and continuing its proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and conventional weapons”, Adam J. Szubin, acting undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, said in a statement. ‘Their objective could be to pressure the global community.
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Because North Korea is so private about its military plans, even in its official news coverage, it is hard to confirm how far along the country truly is in its progress towards developing a nuclear weapons arsenal.
