"America Is A Gang Of Cruel Robbers": North Korea Boasts Of "Successful" Nuke Test As Skeptics Laugh
Overnight, we got two notable headlines out of the Far East.
First, the yuan devaluation continued unabated with the RMB falling to five-year lows and the spread between the onshore and offshore spots blowing out to record wides.
Second, Kim Jong-Un detonated an H-bomb. Or so Pyongyang says.

Around one hour after detection devices picked up a 5.1 seismic event at or near the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, a North Korean announcer appeared on state-run television to read a statement explaining why the country carried out the test. “This is the self-defensive measure we have to take to defend our right to live in the face of the nuclear threats and blackmail by the United States and to guarantee the security of the Korean Peninsula,” she said. Here's the clip which (try to watch it with a straight face):
Tremors from the blast could be felt in China.
This was the country’s fourth nuclear test and comes less than four months after the North restarted its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, which had been shuttered since 2007. The North’s "mighty" nuclear arsenal has been improved in “both quality and quantity as required by the prevailing situation,” Pyongyang’s atomic agency said in September.

"If the U.S. and other hostile forces persistently seek their reckless hostile policy towards the DPRK and behave mischievously, the DPRK is fully ready to cope with them with nuclear weapons any time,” the agency’s director added, for good measure.
Previously, the North’s nuclear tests involved plutonium weapons and if the country has indeed tested a hydrogen bomb, it would mark a serious escalation. "Another test by itself would not be that remarkable [as] the North is believed to have enough plutonium for eight to 12 weapons, [but] if the North Korean claim about a hydrogen bomb is true, this test was of a different, and significantly more threatening, nature," The New York Times notes, adding that "in recent weeks, Mr. Kim boasted that North Korea had finally developed the technology to build a thermonuclear weapon, [a] claim [which prompted] the White House to express considerable skepticism." Here's more:
Weapon designers can easily boost the destructive power of an atom bomb by putting at its core a small amount of tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen.
Lee Sang-cheol, the top nonproliferation official at the South Korean Defense Ministry, told a forum in Seoul last month that although Mr. Kim’s hydrogen bomb boasts might be propaganda for his domestic audience, there was a “high likelihood” that North Korea might have been developing such a boosted fission weapon.
And according to a paper obtained by the South Korean news agency Yonhap last week, the Chemical, Biological and Radiological Command of the South Korean military “did not rule out the possibility” of a boosted fission bomb test by the North, although it added it “does not believe it is yet capable of directly testing hydrogen bombs.”
"It’s more like an ordinary atomic bomb test, not a hydrogen bomb," Li Bin, a senior associate focused on nuclear policy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said on Wednesday. That sentiment was echoed by No Hee Cheon, a professor at the nuclear and hydrogen system laboratory of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon. "A hydrogen bomb is a bomb that explodes using force from the detonation of multiple atomic bombs [and] today’s magnitude falls short of what we would see if a hydrogen indeed was detonated," No said, adding that "the magnitude today is even below the level of an ordinary atomic bomb."
The device had a yield of about 6 kilotones which Yang Uk, a senior research fellow at the Korea Defense and Security Forum says makes it "hard to believe this is a real hydrogen bomb." "They could have tested some middle stage kind (of device) between an A-bomb and H-bomb, but unless they come up with any clear evidence, it is difficult to trust their claim," he said.
"Because it is, in fact, hydrogen, they could claim it is a hydrogen bomb," Joe Cirincione, a nuclear expert who is president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security organization said. "But it is not a true fusion bomb capable of the massive multi-megaton yields these bombs produce".

(North Koreans applaud the announcement)
Be that as it may, the test suggests the North is advancing its nuclear program. "The incomplete data may also point to an increased possibility that North Korea is able to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile and is on the way toward developing an operational weapons program," Bloomberg wrote after the test. Last month, Kim claimed Pyongyang now has the ability to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile, suggesting the country is now capable of making good on threats to nuke the US and other "hostile" nations.
As we wrote moments after the test was announced, Kim may be struggling to keep the North relevant in a world where a series of protracted conflicts in the Mid-East have pushed the reclusive regime and its incessant sabre rattling to the geopolitical backburner. "With Iran being off the table, the North Koreans have placed themselves at the top of the foreign policy agenda as far as nation-states who present a threat to the U.S.", Michael Madden, an expert on the country's secretive leadership, said.
The reaction from the international community was predictable: everyone condemned the test. "North Korea’s nuclear test is a serious threat to our nation’s security and we absolutely cannot tolerate it," Japanese PM Shinzo Abe said. "We strongly denounce it." Beijing - one of Pyongyang's only allies on the world stage - voiced its "resolute opposition" to the blast and says China will lodge a protest. As Reuters writes, "The White House said it could not confirm North Korea's claims of miniaturization and a hydrogen bomb test, but added the United States would respond appropriately to provocations and defend its allies."
State television also carried what it says is a hand written letter from the Supreme Leader. "Make the world to look up to our strong nuclear country and labor party by opening the year with (the) exciting noise of the first hydrogen bomb!" the document reads.

Fortunately for the US, Pyongyang says it will only use its new weapon in the event its sovereignty is violated - so bascially, Kim won't be forced to nuke the West Coast unless Washington inexplicably decides to invade North Korea.
Kim - like his father and grandfather before him - enjoys the pageantry of it all and has succeeded in convincing his people that the US is engaged in a perpetual campaign to blackmail the country and undermine the government's efforts to gain international legitimacy. On that note, we close with the following amusing quote from Pyongyang:
"The U.S. is a gang of cruel robbers which has worked hard to bring even a nuclear disaster to the DPRK."
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Looks like their little economic war against Russia isn't working out so well.
"The U.S. is a gang of cruel robbers"
Well the little fat bastard got that part right anyway.
"The U.S. is a gang of cruel robbers"
From one Dear Leader to another Dear Leader. Two peas in a pod...
"Fortunately" for socialist/communist countries their economic policies destroy all of the country's wealth, therefore they can't be robbed of much. No real reason to rob.
Lil Kim is just playing with Big Boys’ Toys. Leave the boychik alone.
He doesn’t stir-up shit in other countries, doesn’t overthrow governments, and doesn’t have Imperial ambitions.
He is paranoid, but after Libya, Egypt, Syria, Ukraine, et al, who wouldn’t be?
Let the clown play with his bombs. He just might blow himself up without anybody’s help!
Now, what’s the deal with his NEW prosthetic haircut? ;-)
Looney
These clowns in NK are not smart enough to detonate a real H-bomb. Looks like the man-child learned well how to bluff from Obammy.
that guy has a serious micropenis problem. looks like a fgt too.
The hits just keep coming for Hillary. Does this development help her? It helps Trump. She's still trying to sort out her schizophrenia and lavarephobia.
http://trumpcampaignanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/01/hillarys-mental-illnes...
She idolizes that old hag!?
Obummer must be spending all that time on a golf course to beat Kim dad's 34 under par record.
Can't have the Golfer in Chief embarrassed can we now?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8965694/50-fas...
"The U.S. is a gang of cruel robbers"
He must have had first-hand experience detailed in John Perkins's "The Confession of an Economic Hitman".
So is this just bullshit made up by trumps minnions?
Trump can cause earthquakes with pin point precision and German train schedule timing.
Hey, if Obama can make the sea levels fall...
(As he has stated.)
Whoever this fat boy is he is just one of very few who tell both POS Obozo and Prostitutin who they really are.
One thing more. All what we know about North Korea is coming from Zionist-controlled no-truth mass media propaganda machine. Do you trust them? I don't!
well, all i can say is that north korean anchorwoman is no seema modi or sara eisen
If that was an H-bomb test, it was a firecracker, relative to more normal yields of that class of weapon.
nick named "the lady finger", its the atomic bomb nobody is afraid of.
meanwhile obama harrasses law abiding gun advocates, infear of their lives, because of the black criminality obama promotes.
It should not be necessary to point out that it was a profoundly dangerous device.
>> If that was an H-bomb test, it was a firecracker, relative to more normal yields of that class of weapon.
Probably a defective/failed H-bomb. The second stage failed to achieve fusion. Hardly surprising such a gadget fails to work at the first attempt.
For sure there will be more attempts after design modifications.
I would agree with the experts and say it was a normal fission device or a failed attempt at boosting a fission device.
Yep, failed to achieve fusion. Defective design.
You may call it a failed device but it is VERY SUCCESSFUL for it's intended purpose.
It's just like gun control, except at a national level. Have a gun and bullies beware. Have a nuke and super powers back the fuck off.
I see a job opening for Baghdad Bob in North Korea...
I thought he was already working for the Odumbo regime...
I'm liking Kim Young'un more and more.
This dude is like, the epitome of *****. H-bomb on your ass.
''On this, the 100th anniversary of the day the first world war(WW1) began, it is sobering to look back at the way that conflict was so badly reported. The catalogue of journalistic misdeeds is a matter of record: the willingness to publish propaganda as fact, the apparently tame acceptance of censorship and the failure to hold power to account. But a sweeping condemnation of the press coverage is unjust because journalists, as ever, were prevented from informing the public by three powerful forces – the government, the military and their own proprietors.
It is undeniable that newspapers began by demonising the German enemy. They published fabricated stories of German barbarism, which were accepted as fact. Although Belgian and French citizens were executed as reprisals by the German army in the early months of the war, many unverifiable stories – later dubbed “atrocity propaganda” – were wholly untrue. Editors and journalists were therefore guilty.''
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/27/first-world-war-state-press...
You forgot about the World War 1 of jews in the first holocaust.
https://inpursuitofhappiness.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/the-first-holocaust/
The US Repealed, via the NDAA (version 2013), the Smith Mundt Act of 1948, which makes it legal to use fake news stories to brainwash the american public.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Mundt_Act
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-g...
https://www.rt.com/usa/smith-mundt-domestic-propaganda-121/
http://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-2012-5
And what do we get? A bunch of terror-centric stories about mass shootings exacted against the gullible public. No wonder people are convinced that these stories are fake.
Beam me up, Scotty. Nothing intelligent here.
awesome... it's great to have a deterrent against zionist west
"Fortunately for the US, Pyongyang says it will only use its new weapon in the event its sovereignty is violated - so bascially, Kim won't be forced to nuke the West Coast unless Washington inexplicably decides to invade North Korea."
Apparently Kim Jong-Un is NOT a tyrant*, otherwise we would have engaged in a campaign to unseat him and "bring democracy" to this part of the world.
* US MIC speak for "has desirable resources that we need to plunder".
So basically little Kim needs moar of Janet's funny money. In exchange he will provide a distraction and an excuse for the globalists to keep the sheep scared.
"o basically little Kim needs moar of Janet's funny money. In exchange he will provide a distraction and an excuse for the globalists to keep the sheep scared. "
Correct. When China doesn't give lil kim enough china bucks, he scares the cunts running 'merica to gett more money.
-Un likes to keep his name in the news almost as much as Trump and with as much credibility.
When does his new gangster video come out.....that is such a cute Pink hotel....
I didn't know CIA's puppet Kim Jong-Un does something more than eating meals and play PS5.
>Kim Jong-Un detonated a hydrogen bomb
Standard Disclaimer: This is what you get from a steady diet of kimchi and blow.
Congrtatulations Dear Leader. As you well know it doesn't matter if you didn't or didn't. The only important thing is that our Dear Leader and his thugocracy in Washing town doesn't know for sure.
Onward to vaporisation at half the price!
I like the look on the guy's face in the background. He's probably thinking "what a fucking retard, but I have to fake this smile or I'll be dog food."
White courtesy phone for Leon Panetta...
Standard Disclaimer: I see weasels, everywhere.
I couldnt have said it better myself!
It was no H bomb. Nothing but bluster from them. We will use this a a distractor event. Meanwhile in the real world...
How does he get his shirts that white?
I wish I was a Supreme Leader of a small isolated country. :(
If you guys believe this bullshit, your fucking nuts.
I am not talking about the H-Bomb, who really fucking cares abot this crap. I am talking about the world markets going to shit, and all of a sudden This fucker comes out of the woodwork.
I mean, you think the white house has a batphone directly to NK?
They called him, and said somehting like "Hey Kim, how the wife today? Thats good! Hate to bother you but can you start stiring up some shit we need a distraction"
Hah hah
Bomb you long time...
Still think you'd make a lot of soap if you rendered the bastard down though.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Loposuktion-Aspirat.jpg
Kim should appear on the "Jerry Springer Show"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdwMkuBq-5g
Fracking.
So- North Korea says they have WMD, they test WMD, they openly threaten to use WMD against the West. America does nothing. Saddam says they have no WMD, inspectors can't find any WMD, we invade Iraq. Conclusion- too bad North Korea doesn't have any oil.
Quit screwing around Obama,send Dennis Rodman over there.