North Korea conducts fifth nuclear test
SEP 09, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.0210095
Washington Post : On 9 September the US Geological Survey detected a magnitude 5.3 earthquake near North Korea’s nuclear test site. Shortly thereafter, North Korean news media announced that the country had detonated another nuclear weapon. The magnitude of the seismic activity suggests that the test was much larger than the country’s four previous tests. The test was timed to coincide with the 68th anniversary of the formation of North Korea’s communist regime by Kim Il Sung, and it comes just days after the country tested several ballistic missiles that landed in the ocean near Japan.
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