North Korea remains adamant and keeps carrying out its nuclear missile tests. The Korea nuclear program shows no signs of stopping at anything. Trump’s repeated warnings fell on deaf ears. Ironically, Russia and China are also not playing any active diplomatic role to resolve this situation.
New Warning on North Korean Nuclear Test
The sixth and latest test by North Korean regime saw another warning from the United States. The authorities in the US have stated that they will respond to North Korea with a massive military action. The apparent failure or lack of interest from the US to diplomatically engage North Korea has resulted in a political stalemate.
South Korea and Appeasement
There is also unease on relations between the US and South Korea. Trump’s remarks of South Korea’s talk of appeasement did not go well with South Koreans. South Korea’s leadership responded back to Trump’s tweet saying that North Korea nuclear crisis can also be resolved peacefully. Furthermore, the South Koreans do not want to have a war on the Korean Peninsula.
A Far Bigger Test by North Korea
The new test by North Korea is the biggest of all that the country has conducted so far. The nuclear weapon tests in the past were smaller in size compared to recent experiments. It is by far the most powerful atomic bomb the country ever tested.
North Korean Nuclear Test and Dangers of Land Implosion
The test is so big that it creates an implosion risk for the North Korean nuclear testing site. A Chinese scientist, Wang Naiyan believes the new tests may implode the mountain under which the tests were conducted. Furthermore, he added that if that mountain implodes, it will be a nuclear catastrophe for the whole environment. He believes that the country is creating the danger of setting up a radiation hazard for the entire region.
Intensity of the North Korean Nuclear Test
The most powerful nuclear bomb blast has produced 108.3 kilotons of energy. The energy released by the sixth nuclear test is 7 to 8 times more than that released by the bomb that the US dropped on Hiroshima. The options for the US diplomacy to resolve the Korean conflict are getting limited. The two regional powers including China and Russia need to find a diplomatic solution to this crisis. Even a military solution of trying to simultaneously take out all missile launching sites poses a significant security threat.
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