S Korean Military Official Casts Doubt on N Korea Testing Hydrogen Bomb

© AFP 2023 / JUNG YEON-JEPeople watch a news report on North Korea's first hydrogen bomb test at a railroad station in Seoul on January 6, 2016.
People watch a news report on North Korea's first hydrogen bomb test at a railroad station in Seoul on January 6, 2016. - Sputnik International
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North Korea's claims it has tested a hydrogen bomb do not appear to be reliable, a South Korean military official said Wednesday.

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TOKYO (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, Pyongyang claimed it had carried out the first test of a hydrogen bomb. Several states, especially neighboring South Korea and Japan, have subsequently called for new sanctions against the country.

"It is hard to regard this test as that of a hydrogen bomb," the military official said, as quoted by Yonhap.

South Korean intelligence said earlier on Wednesday the hydrogen blast in North Korea was unlikely hydrogen-based, assuming that a magnitude of an earthquake caused by the nuclear test was not high enough.

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