North Korea: Sixth Nuclear test

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North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test on 3 September 2017, according to Japanese and South Korean officials. The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs also concluded that North Korea conducted a nuclear test.[6] The United States Geological Survey reported an earthquake of 6.3-magnitude not far from North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site.[7]

North Korea claimed that it detonated a hydrogen bomb that can be loaded onto an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with great destructive power.[10]

Photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspecting a device resembling a thermonuclear weapon warhead were released a few hours before the test.[11]

According to estimates of Kim Young-Woo, the chief of the South Korean parliament's defense committee, the nuclear yield was equivalent to about 100 kilotons of TNT (100 kt). "The North's latest test is estimated to have a yield of up to 100 kilotons, though it is a provisional report," Kim Young-Woo told Yonhap News Agency.[2]