TOWSON, Maryland, Sunday, September 3, 2017 - North Korean Radio has confirmed what South Korea went public about last evening: Kim Jong-un detonated a huge nuclear bomb underground somewhere in his woebegotten nation, a detonation so huge that it caused an earthquake registering 6.3 on the Richter Scale.
This morning, President Trump blasted the North Korea nuclear detonation; on Twitter he said, " North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test. Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States..
President Trump further tweeted: ".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.... 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! I will be meeting General Kelly, General Mattis and other military leaders at the White House to discuss North Korea. Thank you. The United States is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea."
China's Earthquake Administration said the resulting seismic activity was proof that North Korea had detonated a nuclear bomb that caused "a massive explosion." In London, the Telegraph also reported that Japan and South Korea both blasted North Korea's detonation of a nuclear bomb. Other nations joined in the marked criticism of North Korea's quite reckless detonation, including India, Pakistan and the Philippines.
Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Peter S. Cayetano - who happened to be in Seoul, South Korea at the time of the detonation, said his country was “gravely concerned” about the detonation and added, “Such provocative actions undermine regional peace and stability.” Pakistan's statement urged "all sides" to show restraint. I'd ask what the "other sides" had done besides show restraint, but I suppose there was a rhetorical air to what he said, anyway.
Civilians in both Russia and China reported feeling an earthquake in the immediate aftermath of the North Korean nuclear detonation. The detonation was at least ten times more powerful than any previous North Korean nuclear detonation, the Telegraph reported. To put the blast into context, the Telegraph quoted a report that said today's North Korean detonation was five times more powerful than the nuclear bomb that the United States dropped on Nagasaki near the end of World War II.
North Korea bragged that its detonation was a "complete success." The Telegraph reported that "North Korea claims to have developed [a] bomb with great destructive power." Reports said that the nuclear detonation took place in the northeastern part of the "reclusive nation."
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