While We Weren’t Looking North Korea Obtained the Big One

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Claims Country Has Hydrogen Bomb

The work of Kim Il Sung “turned [North Korea] into a powerful nuclear weapons state ready to detonate a self-reliant [atomic] bomb and [hydrogen] bomb to reliably defend its sovereignty and the dignity of the nation,” KCNA quoted Kim Jong Un as saying.

Also known as a thermonuclear bomb, a hydrogen bomb produces a much stronger blast than an atomic one. North Korea carried out tests to set off nuclear devices in 2006, 2009 and 2013, for which it has been subject to United Nations sanctions banning trade and financing activities that aid its weapons program.