an atomic bomb.
According to scientists, atomic bombs employ fission (splitting in two parts).
Thermonuclear bombs’ power is released via uncontrolled fusion reactions.
Over the more recent years, it was believed that although North Korea was working towards it, they didn’t have the resources and capability to produce such mass weapon of destruction. But according to state media outlet KCNA, Kim Jong Un wanted to let us know North Korea’s conquered that.
As per KCNA’s reports on Kim, “[North Korea has turned] into a powerful nuclear weapons state ready to detonate self-reliant A-bomb and H-bomb to reliably defend its sovereignty and the dignity of the nation.”
Lee Chun-geun, an expert of the Science and Technology Policy Institute, reportedly spoke with South Korea’s Yonhap news agency was skeptical that Kim could be in possession of such a weapon: “It’s hard to regard North Korea as possessing an H-bomb. I think it seems to be developing it, said Geun however, according to another researcher at the Seoul National University Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, Chan Yong-seok, this is the first time Kim Jong Un staked such a claim for having such a massive weapon of destruction.
Although this is serious business and not to be taken lightly, it’s painfully obvious that Kim Jong Un repeatedly makes threats like such to
