UN officials have confirmed, NORTH Korea has conducted a nuclear test.

UN officials have confirmed, NORTH Korea has conducted a nuclear test.(HS).Reuters reported that security council diplomat said there had been a nuclear test conducted.
A South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman said Seoul believed that a nuclear test caused an earthquake in North Korea near the site of two previous atomic tests.
Kim Min-seok said North Korea informed China and the United States of its plans to conduct a nuclear test.
Kim said that shortly before noon local time (1.57pm AEDT) an earthquake was detected in North Korea.
The US Geological Survey said it had detected a magnitude 4.9 earthquake in North Korea at a depth of just 1km, with the epicentre in the same location as the North's Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
China's Earthquake Administration said it was a "suspected explosion,'' while South Korean and Japanese agencies concluded that the tremor was the result of a possible nuclear test.
Nuclear blasts can create tremors but they are distinct from those caused by natural earthquakes.
Japan said it believed Pyongyang detonated a nuclear device in its far northeast.
"We believe that there is a possibility that North Korea carried out a nuclear test, looking at past cases,'' said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.
Japan's Prime Minister called an urgent security meeting following the test.
The blast came after North Korea pulled manpower and equipment out of its test site.Read the full story here.More here.

Hmmmm.....Has North Korea tested the Iranian Bomb? Or did they just switched the use from plutonium to Uranium based bombs?

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