DefenceTalkEven as world powers work to implement the Iran nuclear deal, North Korea’s apparent detonation of a new bomb marks a stark setback for global anti-proliferation efforts. The UN Security Council scrambled to convene a session to condemn Pyongyang and prepare to strengthen the already draconian sanctions regime isolating North Korea. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korean-bomb-test-a-setback-for-arms-control-66296/

DefenceTalkHydrogen bombs, which North Korea said Wednesday it tested for the first time, have a destructive power to dwarf even the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan in 1945. If confirmed that North Korea did indeed carry out a successful test of a miniature version of such a device, this would put the impoverished hermit state […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-koreas-mini-h-bomb-a-bigger-bang-66294/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea said Wednesday it had carried out a “successful” hydrogen bomb test, a claim that — if true — massively raises the stakes over the hermit state’s banned nuclear program. International condemnation was swift with neighbors South Korea and Japan decrying a gross violation of UN Security Council resolutions, while the White House said […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-says-conducted-successful-h-bomb-test-66280/

DefenceTalkNorth Korea appeared to have carried out a nuclear test Wednesday — its fourth — with seismologists detecting a 5.1 magnitude tremor next to its main atomic test site in the northeast of the country. The website of the China Earthquake Network Centre described the seismic activity, which came just two days before North Korean […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-says-it-conducted-hydrogen-bomb-test-66261/