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North Korea Holds a Third Nuclear Test in Defiance of U.N.

“North Korea conducted its third nuclear test today and warned of further action, underscoring a disregard for an international community that has already isolated the totalitarian state from the global economy.

The underground test “of a smaller and light A-bomb” was successful, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a statement. South Korea measured an artificial 4.9 magnitude earthquake at the North’s Punggye-ri testing site at 11:57 a.m. local time, and its Defense Ministry estimated the yield at 6 to 7 kilotons, bigger than the previous two tests. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of about 15 kilotons…”

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