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US and South Korean security chiefs hold emergency talks as hydrogen bomb test puts Pyongyang closer to developing warhead
This picture was released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sunday, purportedly showing leader Kim Jong-Un (centre) looking at a hydrogen bomb. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

China’s Nuclear Safety Administration said it had begun emergency monitoring for radiation along the border after North Korea carried out its sixth nuclear test.
The test was widely felt in northeast China and rocked some cities for as long as eight seconds, according to reports and accounts on social media.
It was felt as far away as the city of Changchun around 400 km (250 miles) northwest of North Korea’s test site at Punggye-ri, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
Witnesses in the Chinese city of Yanji, which borders North Korea, said they felt a tremor which lasted several seconds. Some people said they ran out of their homes in fear.
Michael Spavor, director of the Paektu Cultural Exchange, told Reuters:
I was eating brunch just over the border here in Yanji when we felt the whole building shake. It lasted for about five seconds. The city air raid sirens started going off.
One person wrote on Chinese microblog Weibo:
I put my underpants on and I just ran, and when I reached the first floor I can say I wasn’t the only one running away with just my underpants on.
Another, as reported by AFP said:
I was lying down and sleeping when the tremor woke me up. At first, I t was a dream.
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Guam homeland security and the office of civil defence has released a statement via its Facebook page seeking to reassure citizens. The statement said the situation was being closely monitored by security chiefs.
There are no known immediate threats assessed for Guam and the Marianas at this time. The threat level remains the same.
Guam, a sovereign US territory in the western Pacific Ocean, is used by the US as a strategic military base. The small remote island is within range of North Korean medium- and long-range missiles and in August was threatened by North Korea.
Pyongyang said at the time it was “carefully examining” a plan to strike Guam, located 3,400km (2,100 miles) away, and threatened to create an “enveloping fire” around the territory.
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The nuclear test will create maximum embarrassment for Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, experts have said. Xi was only hours from opening the summit of the BRICS nations – the association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – when news of the test emerged.
Eva Dou of the Wall Street Journal tweeted that the opening speech had been upstaged by North Korea’s actions.
However, Stephen McDonell of the BBC, said that the president had not mentioned the nuclear test.
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South Korea calls for the "strongest possible" response

South Korea said North Korea’s defiant sixth nuclear test should be met with the “strongest possible” response, including new UN security council sanctions to “completely isolate” the country.
Seoul and Washington also discussed deploying US strategic military assets to the Korean peninsula after North Korea defied international warnings and conducted its most powerful nuclear test yet on Sunday, South Korea’s national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong, said in a news briefing.
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China "strongly condemns" North Korea's nuclear test

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China’s ministry of foreign affairs has just released a statement saying it “resolutely opposes” and “strongly condemns” the nuclear test, according to Xinhua, China’s official news agency.
The statement says:
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has once again conducted a nuclear test in spite of widespread opposition from the international community. The Chinese government resolutely opposes and strongly condemns it.
For those who can read Chinese, the full statement is here.
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My colleague Justin McCurry in Tokyo has the full story on this morning’s news that North Korea seems to have carried out its sixth nuclear test.
Here’s some background from that article:
Sunday’s test – the first since Trump took office in January – offers more evidence that North Korea is moving perilously close to developing a nuclear warhead capable of being fitted on to an intercontinental ballistic missile [ICBM] that can strike the US mainland.
Since it conducted its first nuclear test just over a decade ago, the regime has strived to refine the bombs’ design and reliability, as well as increasing their yield.
As the US and countries in the region analysed data resulting from the quake, Japan’s government was the first to state publicly that it was confident the shockwaves came from an underground nuclear explosion in North Korea.
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Top security officials from the US and South Korea have spoken following North Korea’s apparent sixth nuclear test, South Korea’s presidential office has said.
US national security adviser HR McMaster spoke with his counterpart, Chung Eui-yong in Seoul, for 20 minutes in an emergency phone call about an hour after the detonation, the office said.
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This is Nicola Slawson and I’ll be continuing to update you on the latest news from North Korea throughout the morning.
Here’s the full text of the statement from North Korea on its hydrogen bomb test, which Jonathan Cheng of the Wall Street Journal has posted on Twitter: 
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What we know so far:

Melissa Davey signing off from Melbourne and handing this live blog over to my UK colleague Nicola Slawson. Thanks for following the latest developments with us – here’s what we know so far:
  • North Korea claims to have successfully carried out a hydrogen bomb test.
  • According to South Korean authorities, the test was about 11 times stronger than North Korea’s test in January last year and up to six times stronger than its test last September.
  • During a broadcast on North Korea’s state news agency KNCA, Pyongyang claims it is close to developing a nuclear warhead capable of being fitted on to an intercontinental ballistic missile.
  • South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff say they detected a seismic wave from 12.34-12.36pm around Punggyeri, North Korea, while China’s Earthquake Administration said it detected a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in North Korea that was a “suspected explosion”.
  • A second quake in North Korea of magnitude 4.6 suspected to be a second explosion was more likely to be a structural collapse, news reports say, likely caused by the first explosion.
More to come ...
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It sounds like the second tremor reported, initially thought to be another nuclear test, was a structural collapse in the aftermath of the first explosion,possibly a tunnel collapse, reports say.
Will Ripley(@willripleyCNN)
USGS on 2nd quake: “significantly smaller event is likely a secondary feature (possibly a structural collapse) associated with larger event" https://t.co/8efWEtp5cO
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North Korea claims successful test of H-bomb

North Korea has said it successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen bomb that can be loaded on to a intercontinental ballistic missile, Yonhap News in South Korea reports.
North Korea’s state-run TV broadcaster said that Pyongyang carried out the sixth nuclear test in a special announcement hours after an artificial earthquake was detected near its nuclear test site.
An artificial earthquake with a 5.7 magnitude was detected at 12:29pm near North Korea’s nuclear site in the north-eastern area.
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The Guardian’s Tokyo correspondent, Justin McCurry, has written a wrap of the latest developments in North Korea:
North Korea has carried out a nuclear test in a direct challenge to Donald Trump, hours after it released images of what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb that will be loaded on to a new intercontinental ballistic missile.
The regime confirmed it had conducted its sixth underground test, which was heralded by a magnitude 6.3 magnitude earthquake felt in Yanji, China, about 10km from North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site in the country’s north-east, according to South Korea’s meteorological agency.
The shockwaves were at least 10 times as powerful as the last time Pyongyang exploded an atomic bomb a year ago, Japan’s meteorological agency said. The previous nuclear blast in North Korea is estimated by experts to have been about 10 kilotons.
Sunday’s test – the first since Donald Trump took office in January – offers more evidence that North Korea is moving perilously close to developing a nuclear warhead capable of being fitted on to an intercontinental ballistic missile that can strike the US mainland.
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North Korea claims in TV announcement to have conducted a hydrogen bomb test

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North Korea make announcement on state television. #NorthKorea #7News https://t.co/C8YY3ChwJP
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#BREAKING: North Korea claims to have conducted a successful hydrogen bomb test pic.twitter.com/agRbK8tSkH
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BREAKING: North Korea says it has successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test
September 3, 2017
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According to South Korean news agency Yonhap:
Yonhap News Agency(@YonhapNews)
(URGENT) North Korea says it conducted H-bomb test https://t.co/aupvGBBoJj
September 3, 2017
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South Korea has contradicted a news report that there was a second earthquake near North Korea’s nuclear test site, according to AP News. The Korea Meteorological Administration said it had not detected another quake.
South Korea’s Yonhap news service reported a second earthquake had happened eight minutes after the first, citing China’s earthquake agency.
Tremors caused by the suspected nuclear test were at least 10 times as powerful as the last time Pyongyang exploded an atomic bomb a year ago, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said on Sunday. The previous nuclear blast in North Korea is estimated by experts to have been about 10 kilotons.
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The US president has postured and threatened while Kim Jong-un has simply ploughed on building a nuclear warhead and a missile that can carry it, writes John Delury, a North Korea expert at Yonsei University in Seoul:
The test does not fundamentally change the situation on the Korean peninsula, thought it is another acceleration. What is still missing is diplomacy. It is up to the Trump administrationwhether they want to flip this into an opportunity to belatedly start talking directly to Pyongyang, or just continue down the beaten track of shows of force, more UN sanctions, and secondary sanctions. More of the same stuff that has been done for the last eight years.
Read Delury’s full analysis for the Guardian here.
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Latest test has yield of up to 100 kilotons

South Korean news agency Yonhap News has just filed this report:
North Korea’s apparent sixth nuclear test was estimated to have a yield of up to 100 kilotons, about four to five times stronger than the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945, the chief of the parliament’s defence committee said on Sunday.
Citing a report from the military authorities, Kim Young-woo said that the explosive power of the apparent nuke tested Sunday appeared to be much stronger than the North’s fifth one, estimated to have a yield of 10 kilotons. One kiloton is equivalent to 1,000 tons of TNT.
“(The North’s latest test) is estimated to have a yield of up to 100 kilotons, though it is a provisional report,” Kim of the minor opposition Bareun party told Yonhap News Agency over the phone. “The test will be a very crucial political and strategic inflexion point.”
Kim also pointed out the need for the Moon Jae-in administration to make a decision over whether to stick to its peace initiative that seeks to re-engage with the belligerent state through both sanctions and dialogue.
Earlier in the day, the South’s weather agency detected a magnitude 5.7 earthquake from the North’s Pyunggye-ri nuclear test site in a sign of another strategic provocation. South Korean intelligence authorities have said that Pyongyang appears ready for another nuke test.
Pyongyang carried out nuke experiments in 2006, 2009, 2013 and 2016.
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