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North Korea says it has carried out a "successful" underground nuclear weapons test, according to the Korean Central News Agency.
The North "successfully conducted one more underground nuclear test on May 25 as part of the measures to bolster up its nuclear deterrent for self-defense in every way as requested by its scientists and technicians," the news agency said on Monday.
"The current nuclear test was safely conducted on a new higher level in terms of its explosive power and technology of its control," it added.
The test would "contribute to defending the sovereignty of the country and the nation and socialism and ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula and the region around it with the might of Songun (the North's army-first policy)."
No details of the location of the test have been given yet.
According to South Korean officials, a tremor was detected around the northeastern town of Kilju, near where the first test was conducted in October 2006.
The US Geological Survey announced that it detected what it called a 4.7-magnitude earthquake in North Korea on Monday.
The tremor struck at 9:54 am (0054 GMT), 375 kilometers (230 miles) northeast of Pyongyang at a depth of just 10 kilometers, it said.
It is said that Monday's test was more powerful than North Korea's previous test of an atomic bomb almost three years ago.
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"There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris" (McGeorge Bundy)
The North "successfully conducted one more underground nuclear test on May 25 as part of the measures to bolster up its nuclear deterrent for self-defense in every way as requested by its scientists and technicians," the news agency said on Monday.
"The current nuclear test was safely conducted on a new higher level in terms of its explosive power and technology of its control," it added.
The test would "contribute to defending the sovereignty of the country and the nation and socialism and ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula and the region around it with the might of Songun (the North's army-first policy)."
No details of the location of the test have been given yet.
According to South Korean officials, a tremor was detected around the northeastern town of Kilju, near where the first test was conducted in October 2006.
The US Geological Survey announced that it detected what it called a 4.7-magnitude earthquake in North Korea on Monday.
The tremor struck at 9:54 am (0054 GMT), 375 kilometers (230 miles) northeast of Pyongyang at a depth of just 10 kilometers, it said.
It is said that Monday's test was more powerful than North Korea's previous test of an atomic bomb almost three years ago.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=95893§ionid=351020405
"There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris" (McGeorge Bundy)
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