North Korea says it’s ready to detonate H-bomb, but skepticism abounds
- 8 years ago
North Korea is ready to detonate a hydrogen bomb to "defend its sovereignty and the dignity of the nation," leader Kim Jong Un said Thursday a threat that remains unsubstantiated.
It is the first time the regime, which has already conducted three atomic tests, has claimed to have built a hydrogen bomb.
"We don't have any information that North Korea has developed an H-bomb," Yonhap News Agency quoted an unnamed intelligence official as saying.
"We do not believe that North Korea, which has not succeeded in miniaturizing nuclear bombs, has the technology to produce an H-bomb."
But Kim, while visiting the site of a former munitions factory in central Pyongyang, asserted this week that North Korea had become "a powerful nuclear weapons state ready to detonate self-reliant A-bomb and H-bomb to reliably defend its sovereignty and the dignity of the nation," according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
It is the first time the regime, which has already conducted three atomic tests, has claimed to have built a hydrogen bomb.
"We don't have any information that North Korea has developed an H-bomb," Yonhap News Agency quoted an unnamed intelligence official as saying.
"We do not believe that North Korea, which has not succeeded in miniaturizing nuclear bombs, has the technology to produce an H-bomb."
But Kim, while visiting the site of a former munitions factory in central Pyongyang, asserted this week that North Korea had become "a powerful nuclear weapons state ready to detonate self-reliant A-bomb and H-bomb to reliably defend its sovereignty and the dignity of the nation," according to the official Korean Central News Agency.