North Korea could conduct simultaneous nuclear bomb tests

Multiple or simultaneous tests of plutonium and uranium bombs could be North Korea's next provocation.


A South Korean military source told local news service News 1 on Thursday that the "possibility of a different kind of test cannot be ruled out," while adding the army is "prepared for various possibilities."

The report comes at a time when North Korea is commemorating the fourth anniversary of Kim Jong Un's policy of pursuing economic and nuclear power.

Workers' Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said the United States no longer holds a monopoly over nuclear power on the peninsula.

"We have nothing to fear in this world, and nothing we cannot do, because we possess a nuclear deterrent," the newspaper stated.

The article also praised the test of a new rocket engine on March 18, describing the event as the "birth of a firmly transformed rocket industry" and a "historical occasion."
  [upi.com]
30/3/17
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