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Subject: N Korea blast five times bigger than Nagasaki
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ladymop 3.09.17 - 01:18pm
12:29, UK, Sunday 03 September 2017
North Korea39;s Korean Central News Agency released this photo of Kim Jong Un inspecting the device
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The test came after images showed Kim Jong Un inspecting the purported hydrogen bomb
An official announcement was made on North Korean state media
The US Geological Survey said a magnitude 6.3 tremor struck near a weapons test site in the northeast of North Korea.
A second tremor measuring 4.6 was also detected, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said.
:: Key steps in North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile ambitions
The authoritarian regime has not been deterred by warnings from Donald Trump
Japan's foreign minister, Taro Kono, described the new explosion as extremely unforgivable.
The Tokyo government has registered a protest with the North Korean embassy in Beijing, he said.
Hours earlier, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke to US President Donald Trump on the phone about the escalating situation.
South Korea has called for the strongest possible response, including new sanctions from the UN Security Council to completely isolate its northern neighbour.
Seoul's national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong, said there had been talks with Washington about deploying US strategic military assets to the Korean peninsula.
Sky News' Asia Correspondent, Katie Stallard, said: The significant point to take out of all of this is in terms of what response we see from the United States.
By Alison Chung and Andy Hayes, News Reporters
North Korea has detonated a hydrogen bomb with perfect success, the country's state media has announced.
It claimed the device could be mounted on its newly developed intercontinental ballistic missiles, which experts have said are capable of reaching the US mainland.
Pyongyang's only major ally, China, said it strongly condemned the detonation.
Earlier, Japan confirmed its near neighbour had conducted a sixth nuclear test.
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ladymop 3.09.17 - 01:18pm
We've seen over the last weeks and months increasing rhetoric from both sides, culminating memorably in Donald Trump's threat of 'fire and fury' against Kim Jong Un's regime if they continued to make threats.
So the question is, given his previous rhetoric, his previous threats, how Donald Trump plans to respond to this.
Sky News' Diplomatic Editor, Dominic Waghorn, said Mr Trump had to respond one way or another, so there's a real danger here of provocation, escalation, miscalculation, leading to something really quite devastating in that part of the world.Following the release of the images, Melissa Hanham, of the Middlebury Institute for International Studies in California, said it was unknown if this thing is full of styrofoam.
She wrote on Twitter: It doesn't need to be shaped like that on the outside, but they threw in a diagram, just so we would get the message.
The bottom line is that they probably are going to do a thermonuclear test in the future. We won't know if it's this object though.
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The North's progress towards acquiring nuclear missiles has heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula and in Washington. * +
gt_tdi 3.09.17 - 01:19pm
I'm amazed nobody's posted about this already. * +
birdy 3.09.17 - 01:20pm
ohhhhhhhh my god. I do not want to read all that. * +
ladymop 3.09.17 - 01:23pm
Last month, US media reported intelligence officials had concluded Pyongyang had successfully miniaturised a nuclear weapon.
It led Mr Trump to warn of unleashing fire and fury on the North, while Pyongyang threatened to launch missiles towards the American island territory of Guam.
On Tuesday, the North fired a mid-range ballistic missile that flew over Japan - a test considered one of the most provocative ever by the isolated communist state. * +
1clivey1 3.09.17 - 01:25pm
it cant get to far out of control or we will al go bang 
but it wont go that far as people will stop the fat lump (hopefully a sniper) * +
ladymop 3.09.17 - 01:25pm
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shadow27 3.09.17 - 01:27pm
I am expecting Pine Gap over here will get nuked, distinct possibility. They made mention of it the last time they were making these threats. * +
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