The North Korean national flag flies at the North Korean embassy in Beijing on March 8, 2017.聽聽AFP
SEOUL, South Korea 鈥� North Korea appears to have conducted a sixth nuclear test, the South鈥檚 Yonhap 黑料社 Agency said Sunday citing military officials, just hours after Pyongyang claimed to have developed a hydrogen bomb that could be loaded into a long-range missile.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS)聽recorded what it initially described as a shallow 5.1-magnitude 鈥渕ining explosion鈥� 24 kilometers (15 miles) east northeast of Sungjibaegam in North Korea, in an updated report.
The USGS later revised the force of the quake to magnitude 6.3, which it said was larger than that any previous test.
An artificial quake was detected at 12:36 p.m. in areas in the North Hamgyeong Province, the Korea Meteorological Administration told AFP. CBB