North Korea confirms carrying out its fifth nuclear test

North Korea has announced that it has carried out its fifth nuclear test. This was hours after seismic monitors detected a blast near the secretive country’s nuclear test site, and led to tensions in neighboring South Korea and Japan. NK's state TV has said that it now has the capability of mounting nuclear warheads on ballistic rockets. It has also added that the test, which is probably the North’s biggest so far, had no leakage of nuclear material and no environmental impact.
This has been reported in hindustantimes.com dated 9 September 2016.

US, European and Chinese agencies have reported that there was a tremor at 0030 GMT with a magnitude of 5.3 and it was detected near North Korea’s Pyunggye-ri nuclear test site as the country celebrates Foundation Day, which marks the anniversary of the founding of the nation in 1948. South Korea’s military was analyzing the nature of the tremor, and had convened an emergency meeting of its National Security Council. In the opinion of the China Earthquake Networks Center, the tremor was a suspected explosion and China’s environment ministry had taken up emergency radiation monitoring along its borders with North Korea in northeast China.


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