NKorea’s Kim Jong Un sends all-female band to sing in China

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un created an all-girl band in 2012, called the Moranbong Band or Moran Hill Orchestra.

But the dictator’s claims aren’t convincing everyone.

But outside experts are sceptical of the boast, which Kim apparently made while visiting Phyongchon Revolutionary Site, a museum dedicated to the exploits of his grandfather Kim Il-Sung.

“The state managed to become a powerful nuclear power capable of defending its sovereignty and national dignity by mighty nuclear and hydrogen strikes”, Kim Jong-un was cited by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) as saying.

A spokesperson for South Korea’s Defense Ministry said the country’s military didn’t have any intelligence on its neighbor’s hydrogen bomb claim.

North Korea is attempting to enhance ties with China, since Beijing is a permanent member of UNSC and thus holds veto power which could be used to prevent worldwide proceedings against Kim Jong.

Kim’s remarks come as North Korea has since last month been repeatedly calling for a peace treaty with the United States to legally end the Korean War.

North Korea is likely to call on the South to resume a joint tour program at Mount Kumgang in the North, which has been suspended since 2008 following the fatal shooting of a South Korean tourist.

It was possible Kim was referring to the technology of boosting the yield of a nuclear device, possibly using fusion fuel, Mr Lewis added.

The North Korean leader still has not visited Beijing.

Also known as a thermonuclear bomb, a hydrogen bomb produces a much stronger blast than an atomic one.

“I hardly believe that Kim Jong Un would turn toward aggressive nuclear threat rhetoric as this would only collapse his ongoing efforts to improve the nation’s wealth by keeping close economic ties with foreign nations”.

The report by a United Nations panel found human rights abuses on a scale “without parallel in the contemporary world”, comparable to the atrocities of Nazi Germany, and recommended sending the case and those responsible to the International Criminal Court.