A powerful tremor was detected early Sunday in North Korea — a suspected nuclear weapons test — hours after the reclusive regime claimed to have developed a hydrogen bomb.
The US Geological Survey recorded a 6.3 magnitude earthquake at a depth of 0.0 km, a strong indicator the event may have been a nuclear test conducted by Kim Jong Un’s military. The USGS described the event as an “explosion.”
Minutes after the tremor was detected, South Korea’s government said they believed North Korea had conducted it’s sixth nuclear test, Yonhap News Agency reported.
North Korea’s statement on their development of a more advanced hydrogen bomb and a possible nuclear test could once again strain already-tense relations between the communist country and the United States.
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