Here's what could happen if North Korea sets off a huge nuclear explosion in the Pacific Ocean Business Insider
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Rhetoric between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has escalated. In response  North Korea’s foreign minister reportedly said the nation may set off the “most powerful” hydrogen bomb detonation in the Pacific. No other details were provided  but at face value  such a blast would be 1 000 times as powerful as the Hiroshima bombing. Atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons can lead to multiple dangerous scenarios.
Ri Yong Ho  the foreign minister of the isolated nation  reportedly told journalists that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is considering such a test blast.
“It could be the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb in the Pacific ” Yong Ho told reporters at the United Nations in New York on Thursday  according to a story by South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency. “We have no idea about what actions could be taken as it will be ordered by leader Kim Jong Un.”
caption North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un stands before what may be a miniaturized thermonuclear weapon. source Thomson Reuters
The suggestion came in response to bellicose rhetoric exchanged between US President Donald Trump and  Jong Un .
In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday  Trump called  Jong Un  a suicidal “rocket man” and threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea if the US is “forced to defend itself or its allies.”  Jong Un  allegedly responded with a written statement  in which he called Trump a “mentally deranged US dotard” and said that “a frightened dog barks louder.”
“Trump is basically creating audience costs for  Kim  to back down ” Jeffrey Lewis  director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey  told Vox. “If you dare  Kim   it creates pressure for  him  to respond with  his  own provocation.”
“The stakes and heat in this conflict have not been this high since the Korean War ” Tristan Webb  a senior analyst for NK News  said in a story published by the outlet on Friday. “Kim Jong Un said in July that the … showdown was entering its final phase. He appears psychologically prepared for conflict.”
Rhetoric between President Donald Trump and [TGT] has escalated. In response  North Korea’s foreign minister reportedly said the nation may set off the “most powerful” hydrogen bomb detonation in the Pacific. No other details were provided  but at face value  such a blast would be 1 000 times as powerful as the Hiroshima bombing. Atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons can lead to multiple dangerous scenarios.
Ri Yong Ho  the foreign minister of the isolated nation  reportedly told journalists that [TGT] is considering such a test blast.
“It could be the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb in the Pacific ” Yong Ho told reporters at the United Nations in New York on Thursday  according to a story by South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency. “We have no idea about what actions could be taken as it will be ordered by leader Kim Jong Un.”
caption [TGT] stands before what may be a miniaturized thermonuclear weapon. source Thomson Reuters
The suggestion came in response to bellicose rhetoric exchanged between US President Donald Trump and  Jong Un .
In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday  Trump called  Jong Un  a suicidal “rocket man” and threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea if the US is “forced to defend itself or its allies.”  [TGT]allegedly responded with a written statement  in which [TGT] called Trump a “mentally deranged US dotard” and said that “a frightened dog barks louder.”
“Trump is basically creating audience costs for  Kim  to back down ” Jeffrey Lewis  director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey  told Vox. “If you dare  Kim   it creates pressure for  him  to respond with  his  own provocation.”
“The stakes and heat in this conflict have not been this high since the Korean War ” Tristan Webb  a senior analyst for NK News  said in a story published by the outlet on Friday. “Kim [TGT] said in July that the … showdown was entering its final phase. He appears psychologically prepared for conflict.”