North Korea said on Sunday (Sept. 3) that it has successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test for use with an intercontinental ballistic missile, hours after South Korea and other nations detected a tremor near a site where Pyongyang has conducted past nuclear tests that caused seismic disturbances.
The US Geological Service put the magnitude of the seismic disturbance at 6.3 on the Richter scale, considerably higher than the tremors recorded in the country’s past nuclear tests. South Korean and Japanese officials have confirmed the test; South Korea’s meteorological service put the tremor at 5.7. Norway’s NORSAR seismological observatory put the seismic magnitude at 5.8.
This post was edited by Stu Spelling Bee at September 3, 2017 1:45 PM MDT