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Originally Posted by SeeBass
the debate was out if that truly was a nuke or it was faked
I will guess it was a bluff
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I would actually guess not a bluff.
The requirements for building a bomb aren't that complex. From my understanding its either building a internal facing shaped charge to crush a ball of bomb material to the size of a walnut, or driving one chunk of bomb material into another causing a nuclear reaction.
The North Korean's have the personal and the scientific community to build a bomb, and they basically don't feed their people, so they have the money for bomb development.
I have no doubt that Kim and his son are pursuing a bomb.
The other frightening thought is that the initial test was a test of a primary device, from there its not a big jump to a multi-stage or thermonuclear device which is usually 100 kt to a megatonne.