Kim Jong-un Nuclear Bomb 16 Times Stronger Than Hiroshima Bomb

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Photos / REUTERS

WW3 - The North Korean regime led by Kim Jong-un has a nuclear bomb that is 16 times more powerful than the bomb dropped by the United States (US) on Hiroshima in World War II. This assessment is the result of the latest research from "Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth".
Vipin Narang, professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), once said that North Korea's sixth nuclear bomb type of nuclear weapons testing in 2017 had an explosive power of 100 kilotons of TNT.

In comparison, the bombs dropped by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, during World War II were 15 to 20 kilograms of TNT.

Now, a recent study from the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth states that the sixth nuclear weapons trial of Kim Jong-un's regime has the power of 250 kilotons of TNT. The weapons test in 2017 showed a huge increase compared to previous tests from 2006 to 2016.

The research co-author Thorne Lay said; "From 2006 to 2016 North Korea continues to increase its size, from around 1 kiloton to about 20 kilotons."

Geophysicist Steven Gibbons described North Korea's nuclear bomb as a "very destructive weapon".

"The very early events looked like they were not working well, because they were unusually small," he said.

"And then in one year it jumped to 250-ish kiloton. The scary thing is that this is a very large device, "Lay said, as quoted by express.co.uk, Thursday (06/06/2019).

The weapons test also triggered a 6.3 magnitude earthquake at the site of Punggye-ri's nuclear test. The potential power of North Korea's nuclear weapons dramatically surges from 20 kilotons to 250 kilotons.

"But I think from the developments we have seen with increasing yields, it is a very well-developed weapons development program."

"I think the uncertainty the writer quoted is quite realistic," he said, referring to a study of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.

"The ratio between exact numbers is quite accurate, so if North Korea tells us, for example, that the second trial in 2016 was exactly 25 kilotons, we could count the others accurately," he said.

"In 2006, when there was a small uproar, many people underestimated that North Korea had the technology to do this right," he explained.

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