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  • In early January 2016, North Korea experienced an earthquake that reached 5.1 on the Richter

  • scale. But this seismic event was not due to shifting fault lines; rather, an underground

  • explosion. North Korean officials claimed that they had successfully tested a hydrogen

  • nuclear weapon. However, the South Korean sources estimated a yield of about 6 to 9

  • kilotons, which is considered too low for such a bomb. Sources say it was either an

  • unsuccessful test, or a less powerful fission based nuclear weapon. Nonetheless, North Korea’s

  • attempts at nuclear proliferation have been steadily continuing over the last few decades,

  • despite international efforts to stop them. So we wanted to know, how does North Korea

  • have nuclear weapons?

  • Well, since 2006, North Korea has allegedly conducted four underground nuclear tests,

  • roughly one every three to four years. The presence of radioactivity has suggested that

  • these have, indeed, been nuclear weapons. However, few sources outside of North Korea

  • believe that they have moved beyond traditional fission based bombs. These are considerably

  • more basic and less powerful than modern thermonuclear weapons, or H-bombs.

  • Following World War II and the division of Korea between the US and Soviet Union, North

  • Korea received considerable support from the Soviets, including a nuclear research reactor

  • in the mid 1960s. They allegedly refused to help North Korea with nuclear weapon development,

  • focusing on nuclear energy instead. The eventual Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center

  • was built in part with the assistance of the Soviet Union. The site is believed to have

  • produced some of the materials necessary for North Korea’s multiple nuclear weapons tests.

  • In the 1980s, North Korea signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which attempts to

  • get countries to disarm their nuclear weapons and focus on nuclear energy. It is the largest

  • arms treaty in the world, originally signed by 191 states. Then, a few years later after

  • the collapse of the Soviet Union, their primary benefactor, North Korea agreed to disarm in

  • exchange for light water energy reactors from the United States. However, this deal fell

  • apart, and North Korea withdrew from the NPT in 2003. By 2005, they announced that they

  • were in possession of nuclear weapons.

  • Part of the reason for repeat agreements to disarm, followed by nuclear and missile testing,

  • is that North Korea allegedly continued to seek out nuclear weapons technology and information.

  • The founder of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, released documents

  • claiming that in the late 1990s North Korean officials bribed Pakistani military officials

  • in exchange for technical knowledge and equipment. Pakistan vehemently denies this, and calls

  • the documents fake, saying that Khan made the deals alone.

  • In the end, North Korea’s nuclear power may be growing at a slow pace, despite sanctions

  • and embargoes designed to stop them. But it has done so thanks to a clear level of dishonesty

  • concerning their actual nuclear capabilities. Even if they don’t have a hydrogen bomb,

  • as many sources now say, they still have the capacity to cause serious and irreversible

  • damage.

  • Hydrogen bombs are clearly serious businessand theyre much more powerful compared

  • to atomic bombs of the past. Learn more about the science behind the H-bomb’s power in

  • this video by DNews. Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to like and subscribe for more

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In early January 2016, North Korea experienced an earthquake that reached 5.1 on the Richter

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北韓怎麼會有核武器? (How Does North Korea Have Nuclear Weapons?)

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