North Korea claimed it carried out a successful hydrogen bomb test on Wednesday, in a broadcast at midday Pyongyang time on Korean Central Television (KCTV).
The announcement followed the detection of an artificial earthquake which took place two hours earlier near the North’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
North Korea claimed it carried out a successful hydrogen bomb test on Wednesday, in a broadcast at midday Pyongyang time on Korean Central Television (KCTV).
The announcement followed the detection of an artificial earthquake which took place two hours earlier near the North’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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