Asian Angle | North Korea nuclear crisis: time to panic yet?
With the United States, China and Russia all at odds, Pyongyang knows the time is ripe to refine its nuclear capabilities
Pyongyang’s bomb is based on the same technology used in that 1952 test. Indeed, all subsequent tests by the Soviet Union, China, Britain, France, India and Pakistan have used the same triggering principles developed by Edward Teller, the Hungarian-American theoretical physicist known as the “father of the hydrogen bomb”.
Why the North Korea nuclear crisis will return with a vengeance
It is interesting to note that the North Korea Central News Agency claimed that its “perfect hydrogen bomb test” was “domestically sourced”.
Yet, the fact is that North Korea has merely mimicked the technology developed by other great powers – it may have harnessed the nuclear genie, as it were, but it was not the one that let it out of the bottle.