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On the morning of January 6, 2016, North Korea claimed to have successfully tested its first thermonuclear weapon at a site near Punggye-ri, close to where it had conducted its three previous tests. Sensors of the United States Geological Survey picked up tremors in the region of magnitude 5.1. Soon after, North Korea’s leader <NAME> [announced](http://thewire.in/2016/01/06/minor-quake-in-north-korea-suspected-to-be-n-test-18618/) that his country now had the ability to make such weapons.

While seismic data point at a human-made source of the tremors – and definitely a nuclear-explosion-like source – the strength of the tremors belied the scale of its cause. For the first time in 35 years, <NAME> will be [convening the congress](http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/north-korea-workers-party-to-hold-biggest-congress-in-decades-in-may-2016/) of his Workers’ Party in May this year, and in the absence of any improvement in his people’s welfare, would like something to show for his four-year leadership. For his sake, a thermonuclear weapon holds great significance. However, a magnitude 5.1 quake is pretty close to the magnitude 4.9 quake that followed the 2013 test – which was of a fission weapon, not fusion.<commit_msg>Post update: null<commit_after>---
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On the morning of January 6, 2016, North Korea claimed to have successfully tested its first thermonuclear weapon at a site near Punggye-ri, close to where it had conducted its three previous tests. Sensors of the United States Geological Survey picked up tremors in the region of magnitude 5.1. Soon after, North Korea’s leader <NAME> [announced](http://thewire.in/2016/01/06/minor-quake-in-north-korea-suspected-to-be-n-test-18618/) that his country now had the ability to make such weapons.

While seismic data point at a human-made source of the tremors – and definitely a nuclear-explosion-like source – the strength of the tremors belied the scale of its cause. For the first time in 35 years, <NAME> will be [convening the congress](http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/north-korea-workers-party-to-hold-biggest-congress-in-decades-in-may-2016/) of his Workers’ Party in May this year, and in the absence of any improvement in his people’s welfare, would like something to show for his four-year leadership. For his sake, a thermonuclear weapon holds great significance. However, a magnitude 5.1 quake is pretty close to the magnitude 4.9 quake that followed the 2013 test – which was of a fission weapon, not fusion.
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