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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 ...
North Korea said it had successfully conducted a test of a miniaturized hydrogen nuclear device on Wednesday morning.
In a chilling simulation released in North Korea, a nuclear bomb strikes the United States, creating a massive mushroom cloud.
North Korea's recent flurry of missile launches has raised expectations that it could soon test a nuclear device for the first time since 2017. North Korea has finished all technical preparations ...
Order to prepare the test signed by Kim Jong Un on 15 December 2015, the month before the test. The North Korean government described the test as a "complete success" [11] and characterized it as self-defense against the United States. [10] North Korean media claimed that the bomb was made the month before the test was carried out. [18]
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 ...