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North Korea: Nuclear Test was Hydrogen Bomb

03/09/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, North Korea: Nuclear Test was Hydrogen Bomb

North Korea says it has tested a hydrogen bomb which can be loaded onto a missile

North Korea says it has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb which can be loaded onto a missile. It's the sixth underground nuclear test by North Korea in just over a decade and Japanese scientists say it was ten times more powerful than the last one a year ago. 

Also on the programme: build up to the televised debate between Angela Merkel and Martin Schulz ahead of the German general election in three weeks' time.

(Image: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Credit: STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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