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Why Would North Korea Want to Drop a Hydrogen Bomb in the Ocean?

Escalating tensions between the country and the United States lead toward the threat of a "Juche bird" test in the Pacific.
Source: KCNA / Reuters

The schoolyard-level taunting at the UN General Assembly sparked by President Trump’s threat to “totally destroy North Korea” if the U.S. is forced to defend itself or its allies was taken up a notch Friday as Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, responded in what is perhaps his first personal reply. The crux of Kim’s : “I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged

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