North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has claimed that his country has made a
nuclear bomb lighter and achieved its "standardization".
The North's official Korean Central Television said Kim made the remarks
at a meeting with scientists and technicians on Wednesday while giving
his guidance on the development of nuclear weapons.
Kim was quoted as saying that the North's nuclear device is "a very
great warhead that is designed in a reasonable structure that enables an
instantaneous thermonuclear reaction" using what he claims is the
country's own style of mixed explosives.
Kim's comments came a week after the U.N. Security Council adopted its
toughest new sanctions resolution penalizing Pyongyang for its latest
nuclear test and long-range rocket launch.
Claiming that it has miniaturized its nuclear bombs enough to be mounted
on a inter-continental missile, the North has declared itself a nuclear
state. But South Korea and its allies including the United States deny
the claim.
Meanwhile, South Korea's new chief nuclear envoy Kim Hong-Kyun will
visit Washington on Thursday to meet with his U.S. counterpart,
Ambassador Sung Kim, for discussions on North Korea.
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a
country in East Asia, in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. The
name Korea is derived from the Kingdom of Goguryeo, also spelled as
Koryŏ.
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