{"id":6659,"date":"2017-09-15T03:56:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T01:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/15\/north-korea-launches-ballistic-missile-over-japan-live-updates\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T03:56:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T01:56:33","slug":"north-korea-launches-ballistic-missile-over-japan-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=6659","title":{"rendered":"North Korea launches ballistic missile over Japan \u2013 live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s military says intermediate-range ballistic missile was fired east from the North\u2019s capital, Pyongyang. Follow the latest developments here. 2.56am BST The US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has condemned the missile launch, saying China and Russia must do more to put pressure on Kim Jong-un:North Korea\u2019s provocative missile launch represents the second time the people of Japan, a treaty ally of the United States, have been directly threatened in recent weeks.These continued provocations only deepen North Korea\u2019s diplomatic and economic isolation. 2.50am BST The top commander of US nuclear forces says his assumption is that North Korea\u2019s most recent nuclear test, on 3 September, was a hydrogen bomb, Associated Press reports: Air Force General John E Hyten, commander of Strategic Command, told reporters that he assumes from the size of the underground explosion and other factors that it was a hydrogen bomb \u2013 which is a leap beyond the fission, or atomic, bombs North Korea has previously tested.Shortly after the 3 September test, North Korea claimed it had exploded a hydrogen bomb, and while US officials have not contradicted this, they have not confirmed it, either. Administration officials had indicated they saw nothing to contradict the North\u2019s claim. Hyten went further, saying the characteristics of the test made him think it was an H-bomb:When I look at a thing that size, I as a military officer assume that it\u2019s a hydrogen bomb. I have to. I have to make that assumption. What I saw equates to a hydrogen bomb. I saw the event. I saw the indications that came from that event. I saw the size, I saw the reports, and therefore to me I\u2019m assuming it was a hydrogen bomb.\u201dPressed further, Hyten said he was not confirming that North Korea\u2019s was a hydrogen bomb.\u201cI\u2019m just saying the size of the weapon shows that there was clearly a secondary explosion,\u201d he said. Unlike a fission, or atomic, bomb, a hydrogen bomb is built with two \u201cstages\u201d, or explosive devices that work in tandem to create fusion. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2017\/sep\/15\/north-korea-launches-missile-over-japan-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\">North Korea launches ballistic missile over Japan \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s military says intermediate-range ballistic missile was fired east from the North\u2019s capital, Pyongyang. Follow the latest developments here. 2.56am BST The US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has condemned the missile launch, saying China and Russia must do more to put pressure on Kim Jong-un:North Korea\u2019s provocative missile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}