North Korea Confirms It Conducted "Successful Hydrogen Bomb Test" As "Act Of Self-Defense" Against US

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North Korea has confirmed that it has "successfully tested a hydrogen bomb." The test was "an act of self-defense" against threats like the US.

 

This is the 3rd test during Obama's administration...

 

 

As we detailed earlier...

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake detected near North Korea’s nuclear test site appears to have been artificial, according to South Korea’s meteorological service, raising the prospect the isolated regime tested a nuclear device. As Bloomberg reports, the "earthquake" follows North Korea’s threat in September that it is ready to use atomic weapons against the U.S. at any time and that its main nuclear facility was fully operational. The Pentagon is reportedly "looking into" the quake reports.

Coincidence?

As AP reports,

South Korean officials detected an "artificial earthquake" near North Korea's main nuclear test site Wednesday, a strong indication that nuclear-armed Pyongyang had conducted its fourth atomic test. North Korea said it planned an "important announcement" later Wednesday.

 

A confirmed test would mark another big step toward Pyongyang's goal of building a warhead that can be mounted on a missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.

 

The U.S. Geological Survey measured the magnitude of the seismic activity at 5.1 on its website. An official from the Korea Metrological Administration, South Korea's weather agency, said it believed the earthquake was caused artificially based on their analysis of the seismic waves and that it originated 49 kilometers (30 miles) north of Kilju, the northeastern area where North Korea's main nuclear test site is located. The country conducted all three previous atomic detonations there.

 

South Korean government officials couldn't immediately confirm whether a nuclear blast or natural earthquake had taken place.

 

North Korea conducted its third nuclear test in February 2013.

 

Another test would further North Korea's international isolation by prompting a push for new, tougher sanctions at the United Nations and worsening Pyongyang's already bad ties with Washington and its neighbors.

 

Pyongyang is thought to have a handful of crude nuclear weapons. The United States and its allies worry about North Korean nuclear tests because each new blast brings the country closer to perfecting its nuclear arsenal.

 

Since the elevation of young leader Kim Jong Un in 2011, North Korea has ramped up angry rhetoric against the leaders of allies Washington and Seoul and the U.S.-South Korean annual military drills it considers invasion preparation.

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South Korea is responding:

“We are checking whether this is indeed a nuclear test or something else,” said a spokesman of the South’s Defense Ministry, who spoke on customary condition of anonymity.

  • *S. KOREA TO CONVENE NATIONAL SECURITY MEETING AT 12PM: YONHAP
  • *BOK TO HOLD MEETING AT 2 P.M. LOCAL TIME TO DISCUSS N. KOREA

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It appears Kim has had enough playing second geopolitical pain-in-the-ass fiddle to Syria so decided to get back in the headlines.

Ironic really after Kim Jong-Un's "fabulous" year.

 

Various twitter sources report that North Korea is due to make an "important announcement" at 2230ET.

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Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:03 | 7002925 Rusty Shorts
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Clearly Oklahoma fracking 

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:10 | 7002950 Ignatius
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Things are getting hot here at home, so waving the North Koreans provides a nice distraction.

What nation state in their right mind picks a fight with the US?  Nobody, think about it.  Wouldn't surprise me to find out later that NK got an extra boat load of wheat for this one.

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:18 | 7002973 nmewn
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#MyCommieHomiesLivesMatter

Hey! Who's up for a Korean Czar appointment to sort this out?! It's kinda like an Ebola Czar but Asian! I'm thinkin by tomorrow morning he'll have it all fixed up!

Now, another round of pensions for a job well done!

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 23:00 | 7003129 ACP
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I personally won't believe they have a nuke until they drop one on San Fransicko. Then I'll take them seriously.

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 23:21 | 7003195 Antifaschistische
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This idiot may just be psycho enough to do something unimaginable...and God help us all if he did ever cross that line.   But, if he does....can 33 Liberty Street be at the top of the list rather than SF?  (God forbid...of course)

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 00:10 | 7003324 L Bean
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By "he" I'm assuming you mean Obama...

he would never dare nuke his future-speechwriter nursery grounds.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 01:36 | 7003452 NidStyles
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Are there 6 million Jews in NYC? 

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 03:13 | 7003552 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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No, but apparently it does harbor plenty of far-right nutcases and anti-semites.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 06:20 | 7003700 froze25
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Now simply saying there is 6 million jews in NYC is not antisemitic.  And putting far right in a sentence with nut case and Anti-Semites  is just trying to link the the three groups.  As history has shown the far left has been far more anti-Semitic then the right ever has been.  The NAZI'S after all were National Socialist,  they killed a shit ton of Jews, so did the Communist who are also Leftist.  Two diffrent flavors of leftwing ideology or leftwing extremist gone nuts.  I think we can all agree that both the Nazi's and Communist were "nut cases".  I love the lefts attempts to rewrite history.  There is also about 1.5 million Jews in the greater NYC area.

 

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 06:38 | 7003728 bigkahuna
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Those are not the "talking points" that the neo-socialist-statists were looking for.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 07:16 | 7003799 thesonandheir
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#BrackSwansMatter 

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 11:20 | 7004927 detached.amusement
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I love how people keep referring to Jews as Semites

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 00:26 | 7003363 JuliaS
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When refering to a politician as an idiot and psycho, please be specific. Too many fit the description.

... and only one holds the Peace Prize.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 06:24 | 7003714 froze25
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The peace prize was needed for all his amazing achievements of his past that we aren't aloud to know about.  7 years into this man's term and we still know nothing about him from the age of 18 to 30.  Only bits aND pieces that disqualify him from being president.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 06:39 | 7003733 Farqued Up
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Hiding Michael's dick and his orphanage loaners.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 04:49 | 7003623 Early Retirement
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Please. This douche does not believe in a God and has no intentions of leaving this planet.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 02:40 | 7003355 OldPhart
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My preference is Sackedemento, cleaning that shithole would be doing a bigger favor.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 08:54 | 7004119 vollderlerby
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Start with the 435 + 100 corrupt morons.

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 23:20 | 7003188 Baby Bladeface
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Proper response now administration Obama:

1) gun control to increasing,

2) on Iran more sanctions to throw,

3) Assad must go,

4) to blame is ........ Sneaky Putin©.

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:33 | 7003019 Implied Violins
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...or Rodman set him up with Carmen Electra. Hell, I'd blow a load too.

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:33 | 7003020 Id fight Gandhi
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NK is piss poor and likes to rattle everyone up. Take a look from the space photos to see they barely have any electrical infrastructure.

They know the world will jump on them. Its a side show amusement to feign fear of them doing anything.

 

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:40 | 7003058 johngaltfla
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Just broadcast on N Korean TV- Claims it was succesful test of Hydrogen Thermonuclear bomb:

01.05 21:05 ET – BREAKING NEWS – (UPDATE 22:33 ET) N KOREA CONFIRMS NUCLEAR TEST TONIGHT
Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:46 | 7003074 Lumberjack
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Thanks for the heads up earlier...

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:48 | 7003083 johngaltfla
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Shit just got real. Because this test HAD to be to configure a weapon to fit on a SLBM.

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:51 | 7003091 Lumberjack
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I have a funny feeling this will be happening elsewhere as well. Fucking idiots. Keep an eye on quakes.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 01:10 | 7003425 Fish Gone Bad
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Pyongyang is thought to have a handful of crude nuclear weapons

I guess the "crude" ones cuss in public. A nuke is a nuke.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 07:13 | 7003796 Lumberjack
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H-bombs are not "crude". They are quite a technical achievement over the old fission type.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 11:56 | 7005181 HenryHall
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An achievement that North Korea perhaps has not achieved.

Most likely explanation given the various pieces of news is that North Korea tried to detonate a Hydrogen bomb but it fizzled. That is to say it achieved chain reaction fission but the second stage failed to achieve fusion. That fits all the news info we have.

And what that means is that having failed they will be trying again with a modified design just as soon as they can make the needed Tritium.

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:51 | 7003096 MrNosey
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I agree, things are getting hot everywhere. Unfortunately we do not get to hear about most of what's going on unless we come to sites like this, as the MSM are following a different agenda!

This is a prime example of this......

A depraved and sickening incident took place in Germany over New Year and was not mentioned by the elite controlled media, because it involved 'Islamic Migrants'.

http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2016/01/1000-depraved-migrants-ra...

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 23:10 | 7003165 Sanity Bear
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die spammer

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 05:24 | 7003642 Oldballplayer
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Are you calling him "The Spammer" or suggesting he kill himself? It's the German angle that opens itself to sarcasm.

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 23:10 | 7003166 Baby Bladeface
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Seriously, net.kook, this story you link already told on ZH hours before it appears on site you spam.

Perhaps the domain to afteritsnews.com should change?

Well, you sort of sanity has never been.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 01:47 | 7003466 Bananamerican
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the "Depraved Migrants" story ran on the front page of the now MEGA-Lib L.A. Tiempos...

mind-boggling

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-assaults-20160106-stor...

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 02:00 | 7003481 trulz4lulz
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I downed you for this one. Anyway. They only way the nk did this on purpose would be because the us directly controls then via proxy psychological warfare vassal. Unless Kim has a deep sense of gallows humor and sarcasm; i wouldnt understand what they are trying to prove. Distract Americans?? Good luck with that. Most just stare at their feet all day. The remeaning are too poor to have light speed information or so brainwashed that they are happy in their life of crippeling obesity!! Hahaha distract americans you say.....needless to say, if you could distract current americans from their constant soma induced state, youd be a very rich man. Seems to be big business.

Anyway.....havent made it all the way xdown the thread. Did America win the game yet?

 

 

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:37 | 7003045 HedgeAccordingly
Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:42 | 7003060 Wulfkind
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Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:41 | 7003061 Wulfkind
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Tue, 01/05/2016 - 23:04 | 7003143 Janet Shalom Be...
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Question:  How do you know if a market is artificial and heavily rigged by a corrupt arm of the government?

Answer:    When another foreign government ignites a hydrogen bomb and the futures market can't even be allowed to drop 20 points. 

 

Unless that bomb were dropped on the Eccles Building that is.

 

 

 

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 23:47 | 7003260 Jeffersonian Liberal
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What the heck are these three 300-pt spikes on the Dow Futures:

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=YMH16.CBT+Interactive#

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 23:05 | 7003149 stumbLebum
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North Korea doesn't have two sticks to rub together.  Their leader goes camping and can't get the Coleman stove to fire up because he has no fuel nor mantles.  So I'm supposed to believe NK has a hydrogen bomb?  For chrissakes, they can't even source smoke bombs from China for celebrations!

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 00:39 | 7003391 OneLessZombie
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How the hell a supposedly bass ackwards country got hydrogen bombs figured out is beyond me.

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 07:06 | 7003777 StychoKiller
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Dey's lotzo info in the intertubez!

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 07:17 | 7003802 PirateOfBaltimore
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Tiger moms.

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:05 | 7002932 A Lunatic
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It's just Kim creatively killing off a few of his sleepy looking Generals.......

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:16 | 7002971 Ignatius
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Shooting sleeping officials at state functions, that's what it takes to look crazy next to our rulers.

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:34 | 7003027 Implied Violins
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Heck, here in 'murika our VP's shoot their *friends*.

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:36 | 7003032 Ignatius
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And then the 'friend' apologizes!!

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:05 | 7002934 One And Only
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Well China will make a no fly zone over the south china sea and let's be honest Korea and China aren't unfriendly.

So with a flaccid US President capable nothing more of than sending a ship by the islands what else is there?

No one in the world cares about Obama or America. Strong leader.

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:06 | 7002942 nevadan
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I can't help wondering just how much longer before China has had enough of junior's antics.

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 22:49 | 7002974 One And Only
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I think China gave the nod.

Kim Jun ain't stupid.

It's like China saying "stop fucking around" to the US but by proxy. Where do you think the North Koreans got Nuclear weapons? Hello!!!! Look North on the map.

If this was North Korea's "coming out" moment it would have been an above ground test. This had the approval of China.

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