SEOUL, South Korea ? North Korea carried out its sixth and most powerful nuclear test in an extraordinary show of defiance against President Trump on Sunday, saying it had detonated a hydrogen bomb that could be mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The test, which the North called a ?complete success,? was the first to clearly surpass the destructive power of the bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.
Mr. Trump threatened last month to bring ?fire and fury? to North Korea if it continued to threaten the United States with nuclear missiles, but the country and its leader, Kim Jong-un, has appeared unmoved, with the test on Sunday preceded by the launch last week of a ballistic missile over Japan into the north Pacific.
?North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test,? Mr. Trump said in an early-morning post on Twitter. ?Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States.?:142smilie
Mr. Trump described the North as a ?rogue nation? that has become ?a great threat and embarrassment to China,? its main ally. He also scolded the government in Seoul, saying ?South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!?
The announcement from North Korea came hours after the country declared that it had developed a hydrogen bomb that could fit into the warhead of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The United States Geological Survey estimated that the tremor set off by the blast, detected at 12:36 p.m. at the Punggye-ri underground test site in northwestern North Korea, had a magnitude of 6.3.
The South Korean Defense Ministry?s estimate was much lower, at 5.7, but even that would mean a blast ?five to six times? as powerful as the North?s last nuclear test, a year ago, said Lee Mi-sun, a senior analyst at the South Korean Meteorological Administration.
The tremor from the North was strong enough to be felt by some people in South Korea. The South?s National Fire Agency, which operates an emergency hotline, said it had received 31 calls about buildings and the ground shaking, the first time that South Koreans had reported tremors after a North Korean nuclear detonation.
The blast was so powerful that the first tremor was followed by a second, weaker one minutes later, which the United States Geological Survey called a ?collapse.? The second tremor was detected in China but not in South Korea; officials in the South said that would be consistent with a cave-in at the North?s underground test site.
Condemnation of the test came from around the world. In Asia, President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, a proponent of dialogue with North Korea, called the test ?utterly disappointing and infuriating.?
China, the North?s main ally and biggest trading partner, expressed ?strong condemnation? of the test, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. Japan requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council.
In Europe, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that North Korea ?deserves absolute condemnation,? and a joint statement from Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Emmanuel Macron of France said ?the most recent provocation from Pyongyang reaches a new dimension.?
The International Atomic Energy Agency said the test amounted to a ?complete disregard of the repeated demands of the international community.?
Just last week, North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan, sharply escalating tensions in the region. Pyongyang recently launched an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the American mainland, and it responded to Mr. Trump?s ?fire and fury? rhetoric by threatening to fire missiles into waters around Guam, a United States territory that is home to military bases.
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Trump - do it again and you will get Fire and Fury from America.
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America is pussychops under Trump
He does nothing.
Soon they will be able to reach Washington DC with a missle
Guess we can cross our short fingers and hope it don't go off