Earlier in the day, the South Korean media reported that a strong earthquake occurred in North Korea near Phungeri nuclear test site in Yangkang Province. Subsequently, North Korea confirmed in an official statement it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb.
"I have already said that the Chinese government strongly opposed this test. We will definitely summon the North Korean ambassador to make him a strong representation," Hua Chunying said at a press briefing.
Pyongyang had already conducted three underground nuclear tests since 2006, when the country announced it had joined the ‘nuclear powers club’.
BEIJING (Sputnik)
6/1/16
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N Korea's bomb test further imperils relations with China...
ReplyDeleteChina sees North Korea's claim to have conducted its first hydrogen bomb test as yet another act of defiance, and will likely retaliate by joining tougher United Nations sanctions and could possibly even impose its own trade restrictions.
Wednesday's test was staged close enough to the border to send palpable tremors into northeastern China, prompting schools to be evacuated. The political reverberations in Beijing will likely be just as dramatic, boding ill for a relationship already under strain.
``Relations will become colder than ever,'' said Lu Chao, director of the Border Studies Institute at the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences in the northeastern province that borders North Korea......AP......http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/N-Koreas-bomb-test-further-imperils-relations-with-China/articleshow/50467301.cms
South Korea's defense ministry and spy agency on Wednesday questioned whether the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) had tested a hydrogen bomb given the tiny size of seismic activity caused by the hydrogen device detonation...
ReplyDeleteSouth Korea's vice Defense Minister Hwang In-Moo told reporters after a meeting with lawmakers of the ruling Saenuri Party that "for now, it is unlikely" for the DPRK to have succeeded in testing a hydrogen device, according to local media reports.
Hwang said that a procedure is needed to assess the explosion based on numbers by calculating how powerful it was and how it can be gauged through further data analysis.
The DPRK announced that it had successfully carried out its first test of a "miniaturized" hydrogen bomb, but the National Intelligence Service (NIS), South Korea's spy agency, said that there is a possibility for it not being an H-bomb test given the small size of the seismic activity.
The seismic activity, caused by Wednesday's nuclear test, was at a magnitude of 4.8 on an explosive power of 6.0 kilotons. It was lower than a magnitude of 4.9 and a blast of 7.9 kilotons that were caused by the DPRK's previous nuclear test in 2013 of an atomic bomb.
The DPRK's first nuclear test in 2006 caused a 3.6 magnitude of seismic activity, with the second test of an atomic bomb in 2009 triggering a 4.5 magnitude of tremor...http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/962121.shtml