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Since North Korea’s trade and smuggling of goods runs across the border with China, Beijing still has leverage.

Beijing would have to react and should tighten the sanction screw decisively. Since North Korea’s trade and smuggling of goods runs across the border with China, Beijing still has leverage. China wants a Korea without nuclear weapons in order to minimize the risk of nuclear war in its neighborhood. However, it fears a collapse in North Korea, which could result in the flow of refugees into China and the advance of US troops to the Chinese border. That is why China has so far implemented the UN sanctions against North Korea, which it has also agreed to, but leaves the country breathing space. Testing an H-bomb would put this attitude to the test.

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The threatening gestures between North Korea and the USA have reached a new level of escalation. What are the consequences of igniting a hydrogen bomb?

North Korea has upset the world community – once again. What consequences would the threat of testing a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific have – for world politics and the planet? Some answers:

Would the test be a new escalation level in the North Korea conflict?

Yes. So far, North Korea has carried out six nuclear tests despite UN sanctions – on its own territory. According to the company’s own information, two experiments with hydrogen bombs. The UN Security Council has reacted by tightening sanctions against Pyongyang. Relocating a test to the Pacific would be a clear warning signal to the US. Where such a test should take place, how it would be technically feasible and whether over the Pacific or underwater, remained unclear.

Can North Korea then equip missiles with nuclear warheads?

Experts doubt whether the country is ready to produce nuclear warheads that are small enough to be mounted on medium- or long-range missiles. However, the “Washington Post” wrote in August that employees of the US secret service now assumed that Pyongyang had mastered this step too. In mid-September, North Korea had again tested a medium-range missile of the type Hwasong-12, which flew over northern Japan into the Pacific.

What exactly is a hydrogen bomb?

The first hydrogen bomb, also known as the H-bomb, was developed in the USA and detonated in the Pacific in 1952.essay help free Their explosive power goes far beyond that of atomic bombs. While these derive their destructive power from the fission of uranium or plutonium nuclei, the principle of the hydrogen bomb is based on the fusion of nuclei of the element hydrogen to helium – comparable to the physical processes on the sun. Because extremely high temperatures are required to ignite an H-bomb, an atom bomb is used as a detonator. Whether North Korea actually has the largest weapon of mass destruction developed to date is still questionable.

Aren’t atomic tests banned in the atmosphere?

An agreement prohibiting above-ground nuclear weapons tests has been in place since 1963 – signed by the USA, Great Britain and the Soviet Union at the time. The Moscow nuclear test ban agreement was intended to prevent tests in the atmosphere, in space or underwater in order to protect people and the environment from radioactive contamination. But not all countries have acceded to it, including North Korea. The 1996 nuclear test ban treaty, CTBT, provides for a comprehensive ban on underground tests as well. However, it can only come into force once it has been ratified by all states that have nuclear technology. More than 40 have not done that before.

What impact could be expected?

All previous nuclear tests in the atmosphere would have released as much energy as 29,000 Hiroshima bombs, counts the organization responsible for monitoring the nuclear test ban treaty CTBTO. In addition to the geopolitical consequences, a test over the Pacific would also affect people and nature. Radioactivity can lead to cell mutations and thus to cancer. Fish and other living things are contaminated in the sea. Radioactivity could get into the food chain in this way.

Are there any numbers of nuclear test victims?

No exact. According to the CTBTO, it is difficult to get exact death numbers from radioactive contamination. In a 1991 study, the anti-nuclear weapons organization IPPNW estimates that the number of cancer deaths due to radiation according to nuclear tests will be 430,000 by the year 2000 and could rise to 2.4 million in the years thereafter.

How many nuclear tests have there been so far?

Since 1945 more than 2,000, mostly through the USA and Russia. Both stopped their tests – like the UK – in the early 1990s. France and China joined in 1996, India and Pakistan followed in 1998. All recent nuclear tests have been carried out by the regime in North Korea, six since October 2006.

What is South Korea’s view of North Korea’s recent threats?

Seoul did not comment directly on them at first. However, Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha conferred with her US colleague Rex Tillerson in New York. Details were not initially known. However, Kang stressed that North Korea’s missile and nuclear program posed the greatest threat to international policy against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

And how would Washington react?

It is unclear. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert refused to answer the question on Friday. A possible reaction depends on whether the administration of President Donald Trump would see the detonation as a provocation or an attack. Washington has threatened the North Korean regime with a military strike should it attack the US or an ally. So the question would be whether the White House would define it as an attack if the US were hit by fallout.

And what is Beijing’s position?

It would also be North Korea’s most dangerous provocation to date for China. Beijing would have to react and should tighten the sanction screw decisively. Since North Korea’s trade and smuggling of goods runs across the border with China, Beijing still has leverage. China wants a Korea without nuclear weapons in order to minimize the risk of nuclear war in its neighborhood. However, it fears a collapse in North Korea, which could result in the influx of refugees into China and the advancement of US troops to the Chinese border. That is why China has so far implemented the UN sanctions against North Korea that it has also agreed to, but leaves the country breathing space. Testing an H-bomb would put this attitude to the test.

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The threatening gestures between North Korea and the USA have reached a new level of escalation. What are the consequences of igniting a hydrogen bomb?

North Korea has upset the world community – once again. What consequences would the threat of testing a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific have – for world politics and the planet? Some answers:

Would the test be a new escalation level in the North Korea conflict?

Can North Korea then equip missiles with nuclear warheads?

What exactly is a hydrogen bomb?

The first hydrogen bomb, also known as the H-bomb, was developed in the USA and detonated in the Pacific in 1952. Their explosive power goes far beyond that of atomic bombs. While these derive their destructive power from the fission of uranium or plutonium nuclei, the principle of the hydrogen bomb is based on the fusion of nuclei of the element hydrogen to helium – comparable to the physical processes on the sun. Because extremely high temperatures are required to ignite an H-bomb, an atom bomb is used as a detonator. Whether North Korea actually has the largest weapon of mass destruction developed to date is still questionable.

Aren’t atomic tests banned in the atmosphere?

What impact could be expected?

Are there any numbers of nuclear test victims?

How many nuclear tests have there been so far?

What is South Korea’s view of North Korea’s recent threats?

And how would Washington react?

And what is Beijing’s position?

It would also be North Korea’s most dangerous provocation to date for China. Beijing would have to react and should tighten the sanction screw decisively. Since North Korea’s trade and smuggling of goods runs across the border with China, Beijing still has leverage. China wants a Korea without nuclear weapons in order to minimize the risk of nuclear war in its neighborhood. However, it fears a collapse in North Korea, which could result in the flow of refugees into China and the advance of US troops to the Chinese border. That is why China has so far implemented the UN sanctions against North Korea, which it has also agreed to, but leaves the country breathing space. Testing an H-bomb would put this attitude to the test.

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The threatening gestures between North Korea and the USA have reached a new level of escalation. What are the consequences of igniting a hydrogen bomb?

North Korea has upset the world community – once again. What consequences would the threat of testing a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific have – for world politics and the planet? Some answers:

Would the test be a new escalation level in the North Korea conflict?