North Korea's Nuclear Test: What We Know and Don't Know
Preliminary data suggest the test is the most powerful conducted by Kim Jong Un’s regime.
North Korea said it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb that could be fitted onto a long-range missile. The test, its first of this kind since September 2016, is in defiance of international sanctions and pressure from the United States, China, North Korea’s main political benefactor, and others. In that time, North Korea has also tested multiple intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of reaching U.S. shores and medium-range missiles capable of striking its neighbors.
The test, a major escalation in the North’s recent belligerent actions, came at the end of
