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Japan holds drill in Nagasaki amid tension with North Korea

NAGASAKI, Japan (Reuters) — Japan held a drill on Wednesday (November 22) in an imagined situation in which a warhead fired from an unspecified country strikes Nagasaki. The drill involved Japan’s self defense force personnel, assisted by local firefighters, paramedics, and police officers, creating a perimeter around the fake warhead by first checking for radioactivity with geiger counters. They then demonstrated the decontamination of the area by spraying water. They also assisted in the evacuation […]

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N. Korea has developed H-bomb missile warhead: state media

  by Sebastien Berger Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea has developed a hydrogen bomb which can be loaded into the country’s new intercontinental ballistic missile, the official Korean Central News Agency claimed Sunday. Questions remain over whether nuclear-armed Pyongyang has successfully miniaturised its weapons, and whether it has a working H-bomb, but KCNA said that leader Kim Jong-Un had inspected such a device at the Nuclear Weapons Institute. It was […]

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Video: North Korea has produced nuke warhead, says media report

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — North Korea has produced a nuclear warhead small enough to fit inside its missiles, the Washington Post reported Tuesday, a major development sure to further inflame tensions. The Post cited parts of an analysis conducted by the Defense Intelligence Agency that says the intelligence community thinks North Korea has “nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery” — including in intercontinental ballistic missiles. The Post said the assessment’s broad conclusions were verified […]

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