Is there any doubt he would try this?

Jonathan Cheng reports at The Wall Street Journal,

North Korea said it has “succeeded in making a more developed” hydrogen bomb and mounting it on the tip of a long-range missile, and threatened a high-altitude nuclear blast that experts fear could wipe out electrical networks in the U.S.

Leader Kim Jong Un witnessed a hydrogen bomb being mounted onto a new intercontinental ballistic missile while visiting the Nuclear Weapons Institute, North Korea’s state media said Sunday. The state media also published what experts said could be the North’s first photos of a purported hydrogen bomb.


North Korean leader Kim Jong Un provides guidance on a nuclear-weapons program in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on Sunday. PHOTO: KCNA/REUTERS

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