N.Korea Has H-Bomb, Says Kim Jong

A hydrogen bomb can produce a more powerful blast than an atomic bomb. In May 2010, the front page of Rodong Sinmun, North Korea’s top newspaper, declared that its scientists had succeeded in creating a nuclear fusion reaction, a crucial technology for creating a hydrogen bomb.

A South Korean soldier walks by barricades on the road leading to North Korea’s Kaesong joint industrial complex at a military checkpoint in the border city of Paju, August 21, 2015.

SEOUL, South Korea-North and South Korea sat down to rare, high-level talks Friday, with each side looking to squeeze concessions from the other on stalled cross-border programmes in which both their leaders have a political stake.

An official at South Korea’s intelligence agency told Yonhap news agency there was no evidence that the North had hydrogen bomb capacity, and believed Kim was speaking rhetorically.

H-bombs are many times more powerful than ordinary atom bombs but also much more hard to develop, and it is unlikely the North has made much progress in that direction. A hydrogen bomb is significantly more powerful than an atomic bomb, like the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S.in World War II. First tested in 1952, hydrogen bombs are more dangerous-and complicated-than atomic bombs.

“The worldwide community stands united in its firm opposition to North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons”.

North Korea carried out tests to set off nuclear devices in 2006, 2009 and 2013, for which it has been subject to United Nations sanctions banning trade and financing activities that aid its weapons program.

North Korea has often made threats about its nuclear arsenal in the past.

Hyon Song-wol, leader of North Korea’s all-female Moranbong Band, appears in public at a hotel in Beijing on December 11.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said, “we certainly are concerned about the policies and intent and destabilizing actions of the North Korean regime”.

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The meeting began at 10.40 a.m. (local time) to discuss various pending issues between Seoul and Pyongyang, Xinhua quoted South Korea’s unification ministry as saying.

However, skepticism abounds among South Korea’s intelligence community.

The North has threatened to ruin its important ally, America, in a sea of fires and the South.

“We don’t have any information that North Korea has developed an H-bomb… and we do not believe that North Korea has the technology to produce an H-bomb”, the official told the Yonhap news agency. “North Korea will not achieve the prosperity and security it seeks and will remain isolated until it abandons its illicit weapons programs and abides by its global obligations and commitments”, she said.