North Korea Claims Seismic Activity was a Hydrogen Bomb

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

A 6.3-magnitude event was detected in North Korea. The blast was located near a site where North Korea has detonated nuclear devices in the past.  A second event occurred shortly after.  The second blast was a 4.1-magnitude seismic event.  Hours later, North Korea announced it successfully conducted a test of an extraordinarily powerful hydrogen bomb meant to be loaded onto an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

State run media in North Korea is calling the test a "complete success," adding that the "two-stage thermonuclear weapon" had "unprecedented" strength.

If the seismic activity was indeed a nuclear or Indeed, this latest test was the most powerful of North Korea's six nuclear tests.

New sanctions are on the way, and it has been suggested the Trump administration will be willing to cut off all U.S. trade with any country that chooses to do business with North Korea.

“It's clear that this behavior is completely unacceptable," Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said of the test on "Fox News Sunday." "We've already started with sanctions against North Korea, but I'm going to start a sanctions package to send to the president, for his strong consideration, that anybody that wants to do trade or business with them would be prevented from doing trade or business with us."

Mnuchin added that the U.S. will work with allies and China as it takes steps to more forcefully cut off North Korea from the global economy.

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