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List of nuclear weapons tests of North Korea

North Korea has conducted six nuclear tests, in 2006, 2009, 2013, twice in 2016, and in 2017.

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}, | underground | style="text-align:center;" | | | but has since revised to 0.7 kt. • |- ! rowspan="2"|(2) | 00:54:43 | style="text-align:center;" | KST(+9 hrs) || Punggye-ri Test Site, North Korea | , | underground | style="text-align:center;" | | | Hence the max yield could be 16 kt for this test. • |- ! rowspan="2"|(4) | 01:30:01 | style="text-align:center;" | PYT(+8:30 hrs) || Punggye-ri Test Site, North Korea | , | underground | style="text-align:center;" | | | |- • Claimed to be a hydrogen bomb. • Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources has originally estimated the yield as 14kt • The University of Science and Technology of China estimates the yield at around 11.3 kt, with a margin of error of 4.2 kt. Hence the max yield could be 16.5 kt for this test. • |- !rowspan="2"| (5) | 00:30:01 | style="text-align:center;" | PYT(+8:30 hrs) || Punggye-ri Test Site, North Korea | , | underground | style="text-align:center;" | | | |- • North Korea announced that this is a successful test of a warhead that can be mounted onto a rocket. • Siegfried S. Hecker, former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, estimated yield at 15 to 25 kt. • Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources has initially estimated the yield as 25 kt. • ! rowspan="2"|(6) | 03:30:01.940 | style="text-align:center;" | PYT(+8:30 hrs) || Punggye-ri Test Site, North Korea | , | underground | style="text-align:center;" | | | |- • Claimed to be a hydrogen bomb (but may only be a boosted fission weapon rather than an actual staged Teller–Ulam thermonuclear weapon). • On 3 September, South Korea’s weather agency, the Korea Meteorological Administration, estimated that the nuclear weapons blast yield of the presumed test was between 50 and 60 kilotons based on a magnitude 5.6 detection. • South Korean government's initial yield estimate is 100 kt, • NORSAR Seismology Center initial estimate is 120 kt, • from USGS: "[Magnitude] 6.3 Explosion ... Possible explosion, located near the site where North Korea has detonated nuclear explosions in the past. If this event was an explosion, the USGS National Earthquake Information Center cannot determine its type, whether nuclear or any other possible type." Depth and lat/lon location approximate. • The China Earthquake Administration also detected a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. • The University of Science and Technology of China estimated the yield at 108.1 ± 48.1 kt. • The Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences registered a 6.4 magnitude earthquake. • The Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory estimated 250 kilotons. Earlier U.S. Intelligence had given an estimate of 140 kt with unspecified margin of error. • |- ==Summary==
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} | | | 0.7–250 | |style="text-align:left;" | |- class="sortbottom" !style="background:#efefef;" | Totals |style="background:#efefef;" | 2006-Oct-9 to 2017-Sep-3 |style="background:#efefef;" | 6 |style="background:#efefef;" | 6 |style="background:#efefef;" | |style="background:#efefef;" | |style="background:#efefef;" | |style="background:#efefef;" | 0.7–250 |style="background:#efefef;" | 197.8 (Based on average yield from lower to upper estimates as the Government of DPRK does not announce the exact yield.) |style="background:#efefef;text-align:left;" | Total country yield is 0.036% of all nuclear testing. |} ==See also==
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