North Korea’s Latest Nuclear Test Was Twice as Powerful as First Estimated

A woman by a television display at a train station in Seoul on Sept. 3, 2017. The news broadcast has graphics of the history of North Korean nuclear tests after news Pyongyang had conducted a sixth test. Jones/AFP/Getty Images

The nuclear bomb North Korea tested early this month exploded with double the power than first estimated, a monitoring group said, generating  about 17 times more energy than the nuke that destroyed Hiroshima.

The communist regime in North Korea tested its sixth and biggest nuclear device on Sept. 3 and described it as a hydrogen bomb that can be fitted on a missile capable of reaching the United States.