Well, it happened again: on September 3 North Korea conducted yet another nuclear test, its most powerful ever. Initial estimates put its yield in the proximity of 100 kilotons, which is much stronger than all earlier tests: the explosion was at least five times more powerful than the one conducted in September 2016.

State media has already said that this time Pyongyang tested a thermonuclear device, also known as a hydrogen bomb. On the day of the test, Kim, Jong Un was depicted on the first page of the Rodong Sinmunstanding next to what is claimed to be the device