N Korea blast 'five times bigger than Nagasaki'
I wonder how this Nuke compares to any tested in the past by the USA..or at the NTS...
They see its their right to test them...but D.T does not like it nor I am sure most of the World...
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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.
The country's meteorological agency said the resulting tremors were at least 10 times as powerful as North Korea's previous nuclear test, last September.
Experts estimated that blast to have been around 10 kilotons.
It means this latest device was about five times larger than the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki in World War II.
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
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.
"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".
The blast came just hours after Pyongyang claimed to have developed a hydrogen bomb that could be loaded into a long-range missile.
The state-run Korean Central News Agency released pictures of Kim Jong Un visiting the country's Nuclear Weapons Institute where he inspected the purported device.
State media quoted Mr Kim as saying it was a "thermonuclear weapon with super explosive power" and "all components of the H-bomb were 100% domestically made".
Experts are sceptical of the claim that Pyongyang has mastered hydrogen technology, although it is almost impossible to verify statements about its highly secret weapons programme.
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."
:: North Korea threat: What does Kim Jong Un really want?
The North's progress towards acquiring nuclear missiles has heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula and in Washington.
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.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/north-korea-quake-sparks-nuclear-test-fears-035800217.html
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Boris Johnson: 'no easy military solution' after North Korea nuclear test.
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Boris Johnson: 'It's certainly our view that none of the military options are good.' Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA
Boris Johnson has warned there is "no easy military solution" to prevent North Korea escalating its nuclear aggression but said all options were still on the table for retaliation after the regime's nuclear weapons test.
The UK foreign secretary said it was not clear how a military response from the west would be possible, given the proximity of the South Korean capital, Seoul, to the North Korean border.
Any military challenge to Kim Jong-un's regime could come at huge cost to civilian lives in the South, Johnson said.
"It's certainly our view that none of the military options are good," he told reporters after North Korea announced it had tested a powerful hydrogen bomb that could be loaded on to an intercontinental ballistic missile
"It is of course right to say that all options are on the table, but we really don't see an easy military solution," he said. Were the west to hit back with force against North Korea, "they could basically vapourise" large parts of the population even with conventional weapons, Johnson said.
"So that's not really very easy to threaten and to deliver," he said. "Much more productive, we think, is to continue with the international diplomatic effort."
The foreign secretary's comments put him at odds with the US president, Donald Trump, who ramped up the rhetoric on Sunday by accusing South Korea in a tweet of favouring a policy of "appeasement", telling Seoul that method would not work because the North Koreans "only understand one thing!"
Johnson called for "common sense" to prevail in the crisis and urged Beijing to put further pressure on Kim's regime. "There is no question that this is another provocation. It is reckless. They seem to be moving closer towards a hydrogen bomb, which, if fitted to a successful missile, would unquestionably present a new order of threat.
"We have to consider how to respond and it's our view in the UK, overwhelmingly, that peaceful diplomatic means are the best."
The foreign secretary said the UK could not accept China's suggestion that there was an equivalence between the South Korea-American military exercises and nuclear testing conducted by North Korea.
"We don't accept that: what the South Koreans do is entirely legitimate, it's peaceful, it's been going on for years, it doesn't represent any illegal provocation of that kind," he said.
"Our message to the Chinese is, and we are working ever more closely with them, we think there is more scope for you, the Chinese, to put economic pressure on the North Koreans. It has worked, we have seen signs in the last six months of Chinese pressure actually changing the approach of North Koreans – let's see if we can do it again."
Theresa May has condemned the latest nuclear test by North Korea as "reckless", saying it is more pressing than ever to look at increasing the pace of implementing sanctions on the regime.
The prime minister said the test, North Korea's sixth since 2006, "poses an unacceptable further threat to the international community".May reiterated the call she made with the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, during her trip to Japan last week for tougher action against Kim Jong-Un.
"I discussed the serious and grave threat these dangerous and illegal actions present with President Abe in Japan this week and reiterate the call we jointly made for tougher action, including increasing the pace of implementation of existing sanctions and looking urgently in the UN security council at new measures," she said.
"This is now even more pressing. The international community has universally condemned this test and must come together to continue to increase the pressure on North Korea's leaders to stop their destabilising actions."
China's foreign ministry said the North Korean test had come "in spite of widespread opposition from the international community ... the Chinese government resolutely opposes and strongly condemns it."
The explosion overnight caused a 6.3-magnitude earthquake felt in Yanji, China, which is about six miles from North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site. South Korea's meteorological administration estimated the blast yield to be five to six times more powerful than North Korea's fifth test in September last year.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/boris-johnson-apos-no-easy-132307341.html
Quote"It's certainly our view that none of the military options are good," he told reporters after North Korea announced it had tested a powerful hydrogen bomb that could be loaded on to an intercontinental ballistic missile
The diplomatic actions worked a treat didn't they Boris?
The allies need to send a message to NTH Korea and China before it's too late. Most of Asia is happy with what they have, it's only China and NTH Korea muddying the play pen. ::)