Today, North Korea detonated its sixth underground nuclear (or thermonuclear) test weapon. The regime claims the latter. Today's test was four to sixteen times more powerful than any previous one, suggestive of a weapon at least partially thermonuclear. The stakes thus are raised by a magnitude.
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis stated that "any threat" by the DPRK to the U.S., its territory, specifically mentioning Guam, or to U.S. allies, "will" result in a "massive military response" from the U.S.
Not since October 1962 has the world been so close to the precipice.
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis stated that "any threat" by the DPRK to the U.S., its territory, specifically mentioning Guam, or to U.S. allies, "will" result in a "massive military response" from the U.S.
Not since October 1962 has the world been so close to the precipice.
