Pyongyang with his actions that are aimed at undermining the global regime of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, creates a serious threat to peace and security. So in our Foreign Ministry commented on the test of the hydrogen bomb, which North Korea announced on September 3.
Diplomats emphasized: the continuation of the tests is fraught with serious consequences for the DPRK itself. At the same time, at Smolensk Square once again noted that the only possible way to resolve the problems of the Korean Peninsula is peaceful negotiations.
"It can not be regrettable that the leadership of the DPRK with their actions aimed at undermining the global non-proliferation regime creates a serious threat to peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and in the region as a whole. The continuation of such a line is fraught with serious consequences for the DPRK itself. We call on all interested parties immediately return to the dialogue and negotiations as the only possible way to comprehensively resolve the problems of the Korean Peninsula, including nuclear, "- the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Alarm messages from the DPRK began to come in the morning. Before Pyongyang reported that he experienced a hydrogen bomb in the area of \u200b\u200bthe landfill, on which the nuclear weapon was already tested, a powerful underground push was recorded. Echoes got to Vladivostok.
Seoul already stated: the defense ministry of South Korea and the United States agreed to consider all the versions of the military response to the actions of the DPRK in the shortest possible time. And Tokyo called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
"Today, September 3, at 12 o'clock, North Korean scientists have successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen-based hydrogen-intended for equipping intercontinental ballistic missiles in the North Polygon," the speaker of North Korean television reports.
Now and hydrogen. Pyongyang is a wide step towards the status of a nuclear superpower. Sanctions, persuasions, threats, perturbation of the world community - nothing helps. According to the estimates of South Korean experts, the power of the bomb blasted on September 3 can reach 100 kilotons. For comparison, it is about six hirosim. The explosion caused an earthquake, which is about 10 times stronger than what happened last year, when Pyongyang conducted a past nuclear test.
Seismologists have worried about the official announcement of Koreans. Earthquake echoes, as now clear - technogenic, felt far beyond the DPRK, including in Vladivostok.
"I got my head, I did not understand first, I thought it was bad. Then I look - I have earth from under my feet, things are shaking, there were flowers on the window - the flowers shook. I will run away in Corrido - I look, there a mannequin goes with a walker, "said a resident of Vladivostok.
"In the distance, it is approximately from Vladivostok is 250-300 kilometers. The epicenter of the earthquake itself, in all likelihood, was about seven points. At the border of Primorye somewhere around five points. In Vladivostok - no more than two or three points, "Amid Saidoulov said the duty seismologist.
Pyongyang test report confirmed the photo report on the development of a compact hydrogen municipal. It is argued that to create such a bomb near the DPRK, the natural resources mined in the country. When installing a municipal basis on a rocket personally, Kim Jong Yun was present.
"The Great Leader looked at the hydrogen bomb, which will be installed on a new intercontinental ballistic rocket. Kim Jong Yun said we can create so many nuclear weapons as we want. "
The neighbors got familiar to the familiar. South Korea stated that it would be to achieve complete international DPRK isolation. And perhaps will be placed in their most powerful tactical weapons. In Japan, the Office of the Prime Minister has created a crisis headquarters.
"We analyze all the data of our intelligence in order to properly inform about the happening of our citizens, and also discuss this with representatives of interested countries - the United States, South Korea, China and Russia. The next nuclear test is absolutely unacceptable, and we must react harshly, "said Prime Minister Japan Sinzo Abe.
Over the past year, the DPRK has repeatedly conducted the tests of ballistic missiles. The last launch is this week, on Tuesday, August 29th. The medium range rocket entered the airspace of Japan and fell into the Pacific Ocean. Flying a little more than 2.5 thousand kilometers.
Tests in the midst of the exercises of the United States and South Korea. Russia and China offered a double freezing plan: the United States and South Korea stop the exercises, and North Korea is their tests. After all, the bumping arms leads only to escalation.
But in Seoul, they hurried to report that they had testing the newest heavyweight bombs. And in response to the launch of the North Korea, the US DPRK and South Korea held joint JVD teachings. The same - indicative. The world is experiencing strength on both sides.
North Korea held the next test of nuclear weapons on September 3. Now, as they say, a hydrogen bomb was blown up. In the Far East, seismic shoes are fixed. According to them, experts estimated the charge power - from 50 to 100 kilotonne. The capacity of the bombs blown off by the Americans in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, about 20 kiloton. Then more than 200 thousand people died from two explosions. Korean bomb is many times more powerful. A few days earlier, North Korea tested its ballistic missile. This rocket flew 2,700 kilometers and fell in the Pacific Ocean. Flying over the Japanese Island Hokkaido.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Yun said that now they will let rockets towards the American military base on the island of Guam. And to this island from Korea, a little further - 3300 kilometers. Moreover, some experts argue that this rocket can fly twice as much distance. On the map, such a rocket can reach the United States territory. At least Alaska is already in the zone of defeat.
So, there is a rocket and there is a bomb. This does not mean that Koreans are ready to put a rocket and nuclear strike. The nuclear explosive device is not a warhead. Specialists say that for pairing bombs and rocket takes several years of work. However, it is absolutely clear that for Korean engineers is a solved task. Americans are threatened with North Korea by military blow. Indeed, it seems like a simple decision - to destroy the launchers, plants for the production of rockets and nuclear weapons. And the habits of Americans in this respect are simple. Slightly - immediately bomb. Why now not bombing? And threaten somehow uncertain. Because from the border separating the North and South Korea, to the center of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, 30 with a small kilometers.
Here intercontinental ballistic missiles will not be required. Here from the Gaubitz can shoot. And Seoul is a decade-million city. In it, by the way, there is a lot of Americans. In the United States and South Korea extensive business relationships. So in response to the American attack, the northern Koreans can attack South Korea, Seoul - first of all. Army of North Korea is a million people. In reserve - four more million.
Some hot heads say: this is a poor country with a very weak economy. Well, firstly, the economy there is no longer so weak as 20 years ago. According to indirect signs, there is economic growth. Well, secondly, they could do the rocket. Atomic bomb and even hydrogen made. It is impossible to underestimate them. Therefore, the risks of a big war on the Korean Peninsula arise. This topic was discussed on September 3, Russian leaders and China. They met in the Chinese city of Xiamen on the eve of the BRICS Summit.
"There was a discussion of the situation on the Korean Peninsula in the light of the test of the DPRK hydrogen bomb. And Putin, and Si Jinping expressed deep concern about this situation, they noted the importance of preventing chaos on the Korean Peninsula, the importance of manifestation by all parties to the restraint and focus in search of solutions only by political and diplomatic paths, "said Russian President Dmitry Peskov .
Whatever Kim Jong Yun, no matter how he had to think about him, all the same negotiations, the search for a compromise is better than war, especially since the instruments of pressure on North Korea in stakeholders is enough.
"Today, September 3, at 12 o'clock, North Korean scientists have successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen-based hydrogen-intended for equipping intercontinental ballistic missiles in the North Polygon," the speaker of North Korean television reported.
According to the estimates of South Korean experts, the power of the bomb blew in North Korea can reach 100 kilotons, it is about six hirosim. The explosion was accompanied by an earthquake 10 times stronger than what happened last year when Pyongyang conducted the previous nuclear test. The echoes of this earthquake, as now clear - technogenic, felt far beyond the DPRK. Even before the official statement of Pyongyang, seismologists in Vladivostok have already guessed what happened. "The coordinates coincide with the nuclear landfill," the seismologist notes.
"In the distance, it is approximately from Vladivostok is 250-300 kilometers. The epicenter of the earthquake itself, in all likelihood, was about seven points. At the border of Primorye somewhere around five points. In Vladivostok - no more than two or three points, "said Amid Saydoulov's duty seismologist.
Pyongyang test report confirmed the photo report on the development of a compact hydrogen municipal. It is argued that in order to create such warheads in the DPRK, there are enough of its own resources produced in the country. When installing a municipal basis on a rocket personally, Kim Jong Yun was present. Pyongyang sees in nuclear weapons the only guarantee of the country's existence. For more than half a century, North Korea legally remains in a temporarily terminated war, without any guarantees of its non-renewal. That is why any attempts to force the DPRK to abandon the nuclear program so far only accelerated it.
"A fragile truce agreement from 1953, which still regulates relations between the United States and the DPRK, anakronism, it does not fulfill its functions, it does not contribute and cannot somehow ensure safety, stability on the Korean Peninsula; It is necessary to replace it for a long time, "he emphasizes the head of the Korea Department and Mongolia, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Vorontsov.
China and Russia insist on the futility of continuing pressure on Pyongyang and on the need to start direct negotiations. Moreover, Washington offers a real opportunity to solve the problem: not even suspension, but just a reduction in the scales of joint military exercises of the United States and South Korea in exchange for frosting Pyongyan his rocket and nuclear tests.
"We still spoke to John Kerry. They told us the same thing that was now repeated in the Trump administration: this is an unequal offer, because launches, nuclear tests in North Korea are prohibited by the Security Council, and military exercises are an absolutely legitimate thing. But we answer it: yes, if you rest in such legalism logic, of course, no one blames you that you violate international law. But if it goes to war, then the first step should do the one who is smarter and stronger. And then there can be no doubt who in this pair has such qualities. Although, who knows ..., "said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
So, the Americans are rigidly and meaninglessly pressure, the Koreans biting wondering, and discover this vicious circle is offered to us with China. And otherwise - war!
"The provocative behavior of North Korea can lead to the fact that the United States will begin to intercept their rockets - shoot them down both in the air and on Earth before the launch that we call is a hot launch. There is both a military solution method and diplomatic methods - economic pressure, tightening sanctions. In the end, the decisive role of China and the influence of Russia in the region, they can press on North Korea, "said Paul Vaelly, General of the US Army's resignation.
At the same time, it is quite obvious today that neither Beijing, nor the more Moscow can no longer form Pyongyang, without removing the main threat, and it comes from the United States, refusing to sit down with Koreans at the negotiating table. At the same time, Trump deliberately continues to push the situation. In the conditions of the starting economic war with China, Americans benefit from Beijing in constant tension in the position of the guilty, knowing that the key to solving the problem is in them in Washington. However, indefinitely cannot continue. After all, Korean rockets are flying away from each time. Thus, on the one hand, increasing the risk of fatal randomness, with another pushing the Trump to the implementation of its threats, which is absolutely impossible.
"China has a mutual defense agreement with Northern Korea. Thus, no way of influencing the Northern Korea of \u200b\u200bthe Military Trump does not exist, it cannot neither attack or apply military strength, so all this is like an empty concussion, "Pyotr Akopov believes the deputy editor of the portal.
Today's explosion is evidence that the United States for the first time in the last quarter of a century faced the situation when there are no alternatives to negotiations. Sooner or later, they will have to agree with the scheme proposed by Moscow and Beijing - the cessation of military exercises and the guarantees of non-Napaneling in exchange for the freezing of Pyongyang Rocket and Nuclear Program. Americans, of course, will not remove their troops from South Korea, and the North will remain with its several nuclear charges just in case.
How it will be furnished - we will see in the near future. However, the last unexpected statement of the President of Kazakhstan on the need to legalize the nuclear status of states actually possessing nuclear weapons, and the invitation of Nazarbayev in Washington that followed this is perhaps no coincidence.
Tokyo, 6 Jan - RIA Novosti, Ivan Zakharchenko, Ekaterina Polesunkova. North Korea announced on Wednesday at 04:30 Moscow time, the existence of which mentioned before. Neighboring countries, first of all, South Korea and Japan, scored alarming and promised to achieve new sanctions against the DPRK.
For his part, Pyongyang, spreading the statement of the country's government, explained that he went to the development of nuclear weapons to protect against the United States and will never apply it to it if the sovereignty of the DPRK will not be broken.
Suspicious earthquake
Anxiety was scored in the morning on Wednesday after seismologists of different countries recorded an earthquake on the territory of the DPRK, not far from the nuclear landfill in the mountain province Yangando. The magnitude of it reached 5.1 if you believe in European scientists, and 4.3 - according to the South Koreans. The epicenter lay down at a very slight depth, less than one kilometer, which immediately caused suspicion of the possibility of holding a nuclear test in the north of the Korean Peninsula.
After noon local time, the Government's statement was transferred to the Central Television of the DPRK that by order of the country's leader was held "absolutely successful" testing of the hydrogen bomb.
"So far, the United States will not give up the hostile policy, it will never be possible to stop nuclear development, nor the dismantling of nuclear facilities on the part of the DPRK," the statement of the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea (CAT).
"The army and the people of the DPRK will firmly increase the fair forces of nuclear deterrence of both quality and quantity in order to reliably guarantee the future of the Revolutionary Court of Juche (ideology in the DPRK) for all centuries," is emphasized in the application.
The Government of the DPRK noted that the test of the hydrogen bomb was carried out on 100% on their own and using its own technologies.
In another statement, the Government of South Korea noted that the authorities in Seoul will "work closely with the international community, including allies and countries participating in the six-party negotiations, in order for North Korea to pay for a nuclear test, and will take all necessary measures, including additional sanctions in accordance with the UN Security Council decisions.
Japan's reaction
Japan is preparing a plane for monitoring after the bomb test in the DPRKThe Kawasaki T-4 aircraft is equipped with a dust collector for collecting radioactive dust. Earlier, on the air of the Central North Korean TV, the successful testing of the hydrogen bomb was announced.The Government of Japan also stated the DPRK protest. As the Prime Minister of Japan said, testing in the DPRK is the "serious security threat of" his country and "can not be justified by any way." "I am talking with a sharp condemnation," the agency of the kiodo is quoted by the statement of Sinzo Abe. "This is a violation of the existing UN Security Council resolutions and a serious challenge to all efforts made in the field of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons," added the Japanese Prime Minister.
The Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers of Japan Yoshihide Suga declared to journalists that testing in the DPRK "significantly worsens peace and stability in the region and the world community, clearly violates the relevant UN Security Council resolutions, the Japanese-North Korea Declaration and the Joint Six-Party Agreement." "This cannot be accepted by Japan, we strongly condemn and protest against the actions of the DPRK," the Secretary General emphasized.
According to the kiodo agency, currently on the basis of Misava Air Force in the northern prefecture of Aomori is preparing for the departure of the Kawasaki T-4 training aircraft, equipped with a dustwater. The purpose of the operation will be monitored by radiation background in the region after the test of the DPRK. In addition, the Japanese government conducts an emergency meeting to determine the response measures in the case of radiation background changes in the country.
US reaction
The White House has not yet confirmed the holding of a nuclear test in the DPRK, but called North Korea to comply with international obligations, the Agency of France Press, with reference to the statement of the press secretary of the National Security Council of the White House of the United States of the Priz.
"While we cannot confirm these statements, we condemn any violations of UN Security Council resolutions and again call on North Korea to comply with its international obligations," the agency quotes the PRICE application. The price added that the United States responds accordingly on any provocations of North Korea.
At the same time, the head of the agreement on a comprehensive prohibition of nuclear tests (Blinds) responded to the Statement of the DPRK.
"This action is a violation of the generally accepted standards prohibiting the tests of nuclear weapons," said Lassina Zerbo (Lassina Zerbo). "This (nuclear test) is a serious threat to peace and security," he added.
Pyongyang announced the creation of nuclear weapons back in 2005, and when he did not believe, he spent nuclear tests three times along with the launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles. The DPRK has repeatedly declared that he went to it to protect against the United States, so as not to become the "second Iraq." A new test statement, this time a hydrogen bomb, followed reports of holding the DPRK in the Japanese Sea of \u200b\u200bStarting a Baltic Submarine Ballistic Rocket.
"Last month, North Korea obviously produced the test of BRPL," Ryonhap said with reference to sources on Wednesday. According to their data, "(launch) has not achieved successful stage." North Korea continues the tests of BRPL missiles, said the source of Ryonhap.
The American edition of Washington Free Beacon on January 5 reported that the launch was made on December 21 from a submarine near the North Korean port of Sinpho in the Japanese Sea. The publication with reference to military sources argued that the test was successful.
It followed another test, which the DPRK was trying to hold on November 28, but, as stated, it was completed by failure and damage to the Core's submarine ("Keith").
The source of the American publication claims that the DPRK will be required only one year to accept such rockets equipped with nuclear warheads, while other experts express doubts about it.
The world is still one step approached the local nuclear conflict, which can break out between the United States and North Korea. Despite the sanctions and open threats from Washington, Pyongyang conducted a regular test, and not a nuclear-weapon carrier missile, but the test of a full-fledged hydrogen bomb.
Korean hydrogen bomb 5 times more powerful bombs discarded on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
And this is no longer empty Bhagnostia Pyongyang, who previously unreasonably frightened the world with his nuclear weapon. But this time the experts are unanimous - the DPRK really owns the thermonuclear bomb.
At first, the North Korean Championship of Tsak reported that the DPRK scientist allegedly managed to create a hydrogen bomb, and posted a photo on which the device shows the leader of the country Kim Jong. The agency reported that the capacity of the warhead can reach hundreds of kilotons in T-natal equivalent, and all components for its production are made in the DPRK, which will allow the country to create so many nuclear weapons as it wants.
And immediately after the test, the seismologists recorded an earthquake on the territory of the DPRK, the focus was on the surface of the Earth. According to different sources, the magnitude ranged from 5.6 to 6.3, but all seismological services converge in the fact that the earthquake could have an artificial character.
According to BBC, seismic services, USA, China and South Korea note that the earthquake focus was at the depth of "zero kilometers", that is, on the surface, which does not happen during natural earthquakes. And the earthquake itself occurred in Kiliju county, in which the North Korean nuclear polygon of Punher, where the DPRK spent all its previous tests.
According to the South Korean Agency Yonhap, the power of the nuclear explosion in North Korea was 100 kiloton, which is five times more powerful bombs discarded on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
For the first time, the DPRK reported on the holding of a nuclear test in 2006. Then many experts doubted that the explosion was really nuclear, since his power was relatively small. Since then, the DPRK has held four more nuclear tests, and they all became the object of criticism from the world community. Also, a number of sanctions were introduced against Pyongyang. If the cause of the current earthquake will indeed be nuclear tests - they will officially become for the DPRK of the poles.
Trump threatened Pyongyana with nuclear weapons
This direct threat from the Korean nuclear weapon led to the fact that the conflict itself was already out of the framework of the opposition of the United States and North Korea and threatens a completely real local nuclear conflict. Donald Trump has already said the United States intends to defend himself and its allies using the full range of opportunities, both diplomatic and nuclear.
"South Korea is convinced, as I told them that their conversations about confused with North Korea would not work, they understand only one thing!" - Posted by Trump, apparently implying military power.
France President Emmanuel Macron turned to the international community with a "maximum hardness" to respond to the last nuclear test of North Korea. According to Le Figaro by the press service of the Charming Palace, French President called on the UN Security Council members to a rapid and decisive response to the "New Violation of Northern Cores of International Law, the Non-Proliferation Regime of Nuclear Weapons and Security Resolutions". And the UN Security Council gathered on this issue for the next emergency meeting and decides that to take to force Pyongyang to abandon his nuclear program.
What does western press writes
La Repubblica.
So, North Korea allegedly became a member of the Nuclear Club. That is, the narrow circle of countries that can boast the presence of one or more hydrogen bombs in their arsenals, thousands of times more powerful than shells who yearn to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The hydrogen bomb is more difficult to make than atomic. However, it is reached for the country that invests most of their resources in weapons. And the physics you need to own, very old: it is taught in the framework of ordinary university courses
Experts of the Organization under a Comprehensive Prohibition of Nuclear Tests (Blinds) experts confirm: in North Korea, the "unusual seismic phenomenon" with a capacity of 5.9 scores on the Richter scale ". Comparison of data relating to seismic waves, not only eliminated the possibility of a natural earthquake, but also It made it possible to establish the explosion place: it occurred in many kilometers to the north-west relative to the places chosen by Pyongyan for testing, which followed each other since 2006 last year.
Help KP.
Hydrogen, or thermonuclear bomb - the type of nuclear weapon, the destructive force of which is based on the use of energy of the reaction of the nuclear synthesis of light elements in more heavy. The creator of the Soviet hydrogen bomb is academician Dmitry Sakharov. In the Soviet Union at the Polygon New Earth in 1961 a test of a hydrogen tsar bomb was carried out. The explosive wave warked the ground 3 times, within a radius of 700 kilometers due to the effects of radiation, animals died.
The hydrogen bomb differs from atomic bombs with a greater power and lesion area. Atomic bomb, if so it can be expressed more "primitive".
When the hydrogen bomb explosion in 50 megaton occurs:
Fireball: a diameter of 4.5 -5 kilometers in diameter.
Sound wave: An explosion can be heard, being at a distance of 800 kilometers.
Energy: from liberated energy, a person can get fuses of skin cover, being from the epicenter of an explosion to 100 kilometers.
Nuclear mushroom: The height of more than 70 km in height, the radius of the cap - about 50 km.
Atomic bombs of such power have never exploded. There are indicators of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, but it has been significantly inferior to the hydrogen category described above. When an atomic bomb explode occurs:
Fireball: diameter about 300 meters.
Nuclear mushroom: height 12 km, radius of caps - about 5 km.
Energy: The temperature in the center of the explosion reached 3000s °.
Now the hydrogen bombs are in service with nuclear powers. In addition to the fact that they are ahead of their characteristics of their "small brothers", they are much cheaper in production.
North Korea perceived the speech of the US President Donald Trump in the UN on the readiness of "fully destroying" the DPRK as an announcement of war and ready to respond. One of these can be the conduct of the most powerful in the history of nuclear tests of Pyongyan explosion of the hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean. This opportunity was allowed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the North Korea Li Yen Ho, who arrived in New York for a meeting at the UN Genas Assembly meeting, the Yonhap agency reports. According to him, what exactly will the answer of the DPRK, will determine the leader of the country Kim Jong Yun.
On September 19, Trump, speaking from the Tribunes of the UN, noted that the United States, "possessing a huge force and patience," can "completely destroy" the DPRK. Kim Jong Yana American president called the "man-rocket" whose mission "suicide for himself and his regime".
The first response of the DPRK for these statements was a squeamish: Foreign Ministry compared the Promises of Trump with "Lace Dogs", which cannot scare Pyongyang. However, the official North Korean Central Agency has published a comment by Kim Jong to the words of the American president. He responded about Trump as a "political heretic", "hooligans and a violating order", threatening to erase the sovereign state from the face of the earth. The American colleague of the North Korean leader advised "to exercise prudence in choosing words and be attentive to applications that makes in the face of the whole world." Trump, according to Pyongyang, - "Exchange and Gangster", which is not suitable for the highest command of the country. His speech the DPRK leader perceived as a US refusal from the world, called it "the most outrageous declaration of war" and promised to seriously consider "super-grade response". Such measures, according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, and may become the heavy duty test of the hydrogen bombs in the Pacific Ocean.
At the end of August, Pyongyang, commenting on the launch of his ballistic missile that first flew over the territory of Japan, noted that this is "the first step in the military operation of the Army of the Korean People's Army in the Pacific and Prelude to Consider Guama," where the US military bases are located.
Pyongyang's threat about the testing of the hydrogen bomb in the Pacific was sounded a few hours after Trump promised to tighten the sanctions against the DPRK even more. New restrictions on the UN Security Council were introduced only on September 11. Then the World Organization has limited the possibilities of North Korea to import more than 2 million barrels of petroleum products per year, and also imposed a ban on the export of all its textile products and labor, which annually brought at least $ 1.2 billion. Also sanctioned the freezing of goods transported under the North Korean flag in The case of a vessel command failure from inspection.
These measures unanimously supported all 15 member countries of the UN Security Council. However, in initially the United States demanded more, in particular, they insisted on the full prohibition of imports of petroleum products and personal sanctions against Kim Jong. On September 21, Trump said that he was expanding the powers of his administration for the introduction of sanctions against the DPRK. His decree aimed at stopping financial flows, which "feed the efforts of North Korea" in the development of nuclear weapons. In particular, Washington intends to tighten the sanctions against individuals, enterprises and banks that are doing business with North Korea, reports Fox News. Separately we are talking about suppliers in the DPRK of technologies and information.
The signing of the sanction decree of Trump was preceded by its consultation on strengthening pressure on the DPRK with the leader of South Korea Moon Zhe Income and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Until now, nuclear tests North Korea spent underground. The latter, the most powerful, occurred on September 3. Initially, the experts estimated its capacity of 100-120 CT, which is 5-6 times stronger than the previous one, but later increased their estimates up to 250 CT. The explosion magnitude, initially estimated at 4.8, was later adjusted to 6.1. These estimates confirmed that the DPRK was able to create a hydrogen bomb, since the power of a conventional atomic bomb is limited to a level of 30 CT. The successful test of the hydrogen bomb - the warheads for the rocket - officially declared Pyongyang.
Even after the underground nuclear test of the DPRK, the South Korean observers recorded the emission of Xenon-133 radioactive gas to the atmosphere, although they stipulated that its concentration is not dangerous to health and ecology. At the same time, an explosion of 250 CT is close to the maximum that the North Korean nuclear polygon can withstand, experts noted. On satellite images, they were recorded in the places of underground landslide tests and the seeding of the rock, which could potentially lead to a violation of its integrity and the output of radionuclides to the surface. How many more tests he can withstand, unknown.
Until now, the presence of a hydrogen bomb is officially recognized in five countries that have the status of nuclear powers - the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and China. They are permanent members of the UN Security Council with a veto. The completion of the development of such weapons in the DPRK is not recognized.
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