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North Korea's nuclear testing series summary Series or years Years covered Tests [Summ 1] Devices fired Devices with unknown yield Peaceful use tests Non-PTBT tests [Summ 2] Yield range [Summ 3] Total yield (kilotons) [Summ 4] Notes nuclear tests: 2006–2017 6: 6: 0.7–250 197.8: Totals: 2006-Oct-9 to 2017-Sep-3 6 6 0.7–250
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) conducted its sixth (and most recent to date) nuclear test on 3 September 2017, stating it had tested a thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb). [6] The United States Geological Survey reported an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude not far from North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site. [7]
On 12 February 2013, North Korean state media announced it had conducted an underground nuclear test, its third in seven years.A tremor that exhibited a nuclear bomb signature with an initial magnitude 4.9 (later revised to 5.1) was detected by the China Earthquake Networks Center, [9] Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization [10] and the United States ...
A man watches a television showing a news broadcast using file video of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul, Nov. 5, 2024, after the North test fired a salvo of short-range ...
Saturday’s ICBM test, the North’s first missile test since Jan. 1, signals its leader Kim Jong Un is using his rivals’ drills as a chance to expand his country’s nuclear arsenal to get the ...
Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said the missile, which flew about 800 kilometers (500 miles), was tipped with a mock nuclear warhead. ... While the North after six nuclear tests ...
Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site (Korean: 풍계리 핵 실험장; Hancha: 豊溪里核實驗場) was the only known nuclear test site of North Korea. Nuclear tests were conducted at the site in October 2006 , May 2009 , February 2013 , January 2016 , September 2016 , and September 2017 .
Feature: North Korean Nuclear Test, Arms Control Today, November 2006; UN-Resolution 1718 full text; M 4.3 Nuclear Explosion – North Korea – United States Geological Survey; Seismic data from Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology; North Korea's nuclear facilities by Google Earth, including the site of the October 2006 test