wed, 06 jan 2016, 13:35
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The Netherlands also within range of missiles

Plays North Korea blufpoker with h-bomb?

Coen Springelkamp

Boom! With a heavy underground explosion at nearly a kilometer depth to the northwest of the capital Pyongyang, the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un again the attention of the world drawn. The country claims a hydrogen bomb to be detonated. Plays the dictator blufpoker or is it him really successful a new weapon of mass destruction to develop?

Photo: AP

The United States take the threat very seriously and investigate the claim. The test led to a quake in kernwapentestgebied Punggye-ri of 5.1 on the Richter scale. The explosion is due to seismic equipment anywhere in the world registered.

Lonely

The Stalinist kluizenaarsstaat is the most closed country in the world. And the most solitary country. North Korea has barely any allies and leader Kim Jong-un feels by neighbouring South Korea and Japan are threatened. But the biggest enemy is the capitalist devil ” United States. That is also the reason for Kim Jong-un’s blown fascination for defence. And he wants to be equally treated. While the poor country billions of spending on the development of new weapons, suffering from the nearly 25 million North Koreans starving to death. Especially in the rural areas, the situation is distressing.

The possession of nuclear weapons for North Korea to be a guarantee of peace’. The dictator will “not hesitate” to use the weapons to deploy when a threat of invasion by neighboring South Korea and archrival United States.

Although North Korea has a large army, is that outdated. Despite the skepticism about this program and the numerous failed rocket launches in the past, the country seems now successes. That was for many of the western countries as a total surprise. And that says a lot about the way North Korea weapons has been developed: in the deepest secret. The country is so closed that the United States should do with the information that is obtained by observation with satellites and a single defector.

The netherlands

Attempts to get the country to disarm in exchange for the lifting of the international trade embargo have not helped. To international protests listens to the country.

Although always giggly is done about the obsession of the dictator to get nuclear weapons and long-range missiles to develop, it seems he has succeeded. According to the United Nations, and North Korea have about 10 to 15 nuclear weapons, which may also be on long-range missiles can be mounted. With a range of approximately 9000 km are not only all the immediate neighbouring countries, but also large parts of the United States within range. North Korea may even Europe among shot take. And so also the Netherlands.

Enemy and neighbour South Korea summarizes the test of North Korea as a provocation and thinking about countermeasures. “The test is a threat to the safety of the population and the security of South Korea.” The cabinet came in crisisberaad together. Also notable is the reaction of China. The country is the only ally that dictator Kim-Jong Un still has, all he seems to have less and less to instructions from the Chinese to listen. “China condemns the test of a hydrogen bomb strongly. We will high-level officials for clarification questions and the North Korean ambassador in charge,” said the official response from Beijing.

It will probably take a few days before there is certainty or the quake in North Korea is actually caused by a test with a hydrogen bomb.