North Korea testing ‘nuclear detonation device’

SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korea has trialled a ‘nuclear detonation device’, a senior South Korean presidential official said Wednesday, adding that a nuclear test could be imminent.

US and South Korean officials have warned for weeks that Pyongyang may conduct a seventh nuclear test, and on Wednesday it test-fired three missiles, including possibly its largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Hwasong-17.

The latest launch comes just days after US President Joe Biden left South Korea Sunday.

Despite struggling with a recent Covid-19 outbreak, the isolated country has resumed construction at a long-dormant nuclear reactor, new satellite imagery has indicated.

‘Operational tests of a nuclear detonation device in preparation for a seventh nuclear test are now being detected,’ said Kim Tae-hyo, first deputy director of the National Security Office…”

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