North Korea Conducts Underground Nuclear Bomb Test
North Korea faced a barrage of global condemnation and calls for harsh sanctions Monday after it announced that it had set off an atomic weapon underground, a test that thrusts the secretive communist state into the elite club of nuclear-armed nations. I can’t believe that North Korea would actually do a live test, but hey what do I know. It looks like North Korea has nuclear bombs and is already using them!
“It is 100 percent (certain) that it was an underground nuclear explosion,” said Lt. Gen. Vladimir Verkhovtsev, head of a Defense Ministry department, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency. Although North Korea has long claimed it had the capability to produce a bomb, the test was the first manifest proof of its membership in a small club of nuclear-armed nations. A nuclear armed North Korea would dramatically alter the strategic balance of power in the Pacific region and would tend to undermine already fraying global anti-proliferation efforts.
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