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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 22181123" data-attributes="member: 158020">මිසයිලය_සූදානම්(North_Korea_Nuclear_Test)<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/shocked.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":shocked:" title="Shocked    :shocked:" data-shortname=":shocked:" />North Korea Nuclear Test-Hydrogen Bomb 'Missile-Ready' <img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/17FEC/production/_97648289_041423379.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> North Korea says it has successfully tested a nuclear weapon that could be loaded onto a long-range missile.The  secretive communist state said its sixth nuclear test was a "perfect  success", hours after seismologists had detected an earth tremor. Pyongyang said it had tested a hydrogen bomb - a device many times more powerful than an atomic bomb. Analysts say the claims should be treated with caution, but its nuclear capability is clearly advancing.North  Korea last carried out a nuclear test in September 2016. It has defied  UN sanctions and international pressure to develop nuclear weapons and  to test missiles which could potentially reach the mainland US. South  Korean officials said the latest test took place in Kilju County, where  the North's Punggye-ri nuclear test site is situated.The "artificial quake" was 9.8 times more powerful than the tremor from the North's fifth test, the state weather agency said. It came hours after Pyongyang said it had miniaturised a hydrogen bomb  for use on a long-range missile, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was  pictured with what state media said was a new type of hydrogen bomb.  State media said the device could be loaded on to a ballistic missile. How can the world respond? Jonathan Marcus, BBC defence and diplomatic correspondent North Korea's sixth nuclear test - probably its largest so far - sends out one clear political signal. Despite  the bluster and threats from the Trump administration in Washington and  near-universal condemnation from around the world, Pyongyang is not  going to halt or constrain its nuclear activities. Worryingly, it  also suggests that this is a programme that is progressing on all  fronts at a faster rate than many had expected. So far all efforts to  pressure North Korea - sanctions, isolation, and military threats - have  all failed to move Pyongyang. Could more be done? Certainly, but  the harshest economic pressure would potentially cripple the regime and  push it towards catastrophe - something China is unwilling to  countenance.Containment and deterrence will now come to the fore  as the world adjusts its policy from seeking to roll-back Pyongyang's  weapons programme to living with a nuclear-armed North Korea. Can the world live with a nuclear North Korea? Initial  reports from the US Geological Survey put the tremor at 5.6 magnitude  with a depth of 10km (six miles) but this was later upgraded to 6.3  magnitude at 0km. This would make it the North's most powerful nuclear  test to date. Japan condemned the test and South Korean President Moon Jae-in convened emergency security council talks. <img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/17EC0/production/_97648979_041427524.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (The USGS put the site of the quake near the Punggye-ri test site) Bruce Bennett, a defence analyst at public policy group the Rand  Corporation, told the BBC that the size of the tremor was significant."If it really does prove out to be 6.3, that's a very big weapon, much bigger," he said."It's still not a true hydrogen bomb but it's certainly much closer to that than anything they have ever done before."He said China would also be concerned about the size of the suspected blast. "Those Chinese people across the border from that area, they were undoubtedly shaken terribly," he said. 'Great destructive power' A series of recent missile tests has caused growing international unease.In  a report on Sunday, the North's state news agency KCNA said Kim Jong-un  had visited scientists at the nuclear weapons institute and "guided the  work for nuclear weaponisation". "The institute recently  succeeded in making a more developed nuke," the report said, adding: "He  (Kim Jong-un) watched an H-bomb to be loaded into a new ICBM  (intercontinental ballistic missile)." The report carried pictures  of the leader inspecting the device. It described the weapon as "a  multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which  can be detonated even at high altitudes".International experts  say the North has made advances in its nuclear weapons capabilities but  it is unclear if it has successfully miniaturised a nuclear weapon it  can load on to a missile. The North has previously claimed to have  miniaturised a nuclear weapon but experts have cast doubt on this.There is also scepticism about the North's claims to have developed a  hydrogen bomb, which is more powerful than an atomic bomb. Hydrogen  bombs use fusion - the merging of atoms - to unleash huge amounts of  energy, whereas atomic bombs use nuclear fission, or the splitting of  atoms. Previous nuclear tests <img src="https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/94DC/production/_91080183_north_korea_nuclear_tests_624map_v5.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> ----------- <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41139445" target="_blank">Source</a> </blockquote>

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