N Korea blast 'five times bigger than Nagasaki' Sky News Alison Chung and Andy Hayes, News Reporters,Sky News 3 hours ago Reactions Sign in to like Reblog on Tumblr Share Tweet Email
What action could be taken against N Korea? What action could be taken against N Korea? Sky video Scroll back up to restore default view. North Korea has detonated a hydrogen bomb with "perfect success", the country's state media has announced.
It claimed the device could be mounted on its newly developed intercontinental ballistic missiles, which experts have said are capable of reaching the US mainland.
Pyongyang's only major ally, China, said it strongly condemned the detonation.
Earlier, Japan confirmed its near neighbour had conducted a sixth nuclear test.
The country's meteorological agency said the resulting tremors were at least 10 times as powerful as North Korea's previous nuclear test, last September.
Experts estimated that blast to have been around 10 kilotons.
It means this latest device was about five times larger than the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki in World War II.
The US Geological Survey said a magnitude 6.3 tremor struck near a weapons test site in the northeast of North Korea.
A second tremor measuring 4.6 was also detected, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said.
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Japan's foreign minister, Taro Kono, described the new explosion as "extremely unforgivable".
The Tokyo government has registered a protest with the North Korean embassy in Beijing, he said.
Hours earlier, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke to US President Donald Trump on the phone about the "escalating" situation.
South Korea has called for the "strongest possible" response, including new sanctions from the UN Security Council to "completely isolate" its northern neighbour.
Seoul's national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong, said there had been talks with Washington about deploying US strategic military assets to the Korean peninsula.
Sky News' Asia Correspondent, Katie Stallard, said: "The significant point to take out of all of this is in terms of what response we see from the United States.
"We've seen over the last weeks and months increasing rhetoric from both sides, culminating memorably in Donald Trump's threat of 'fire and fury' against Kim Jong Un's regime if they continued to make threats.
Donald Trump condemns 'hostile and dangerous' North Korea after it announces 'perfect' test of biggest nuclear bomb yet The Independent Jon di Paolo and Greg Wilford,The Independent 2 hours 6 minutes ago Reactions Sign in to like Reblog on Tumblr Share Tweet Email Donald Trump has condemned an apparent nuclear test by North Korea as "hostile and dangerous" after the secretive state said it had performed a "perfect" explosion of its most powerful weapon yet.
"Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States," Mr Trump said in a tweet hours after the blast caused condemnation around the world.
"North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success," he added.
"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 US President's national security adviser Herbert Raymond McMaster spoke to South Korea about the crisis this morning.
World leaders have condemned the actions of Kim Jong-un's regime, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron describing the developments as a “new dimension of provocation”.
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