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But by how much has yesterday’s test raised the stakes? Swenson-Wright doesn't think it makes a huge change: “Monitors in Vienna suggest that the bomb, if that’s what it is, is about 4.9 kilotons in magnitude. Which is significant, but not necessarily that much bigger than the bomb from the test of 2009.”Crucially, he says, it depends on whether the test involved a plutonium or uranium-based nuclear bomb. “The past two tests were plutonium-based devices. If the North has been able to test a uranium device, it’s a significant enhancement in its chemical capabilities and it suggests that its nuclear programme is more advanced than we first thought.“The North Korean official response has been to say that they tested a lighter bomb, one that they have been able to miniaturise. If that’s true – and that’s a big 'if' – it does materially enhance their strategic capability. It would allow them, if they so chose, to put a warhead on a ballistic missile and therefore deploy it.”It's feared that if North Korea does successfully develop this smaller bomb, the West Coast of the US would fall within striking distance.In spite of this growing threat from the North, residents of South Korea’s capital appeared remarkably unfazed yesterday morning. “Am I fearful? Not at all,” said 24-year-old schoolteacher Yujin. “This is the third time they have tested nuclear shit. Nothing really happened till now and nothing will happen. They just want to get attention from other countries.
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