Despite its claims Austin Hooper Falcons Jersey , North Korea's nuclear test on Wednesday may not have been a hydrogen bomb, since making such a weapon requires sophisticated technologies which North Korea is unlikely to possess, experts said.
North Korea on Wednesday said that an "earthquake" that was recorded in the country's northeast was a hydrogen bomb test, conducted in the same location as three previous nuclear tests, CNN reported.
The test took place at 10 am local time, a televised statement said, with tremors being felt across the border in China.
Zhai Dequan Deion Jones Falcons Jersey , a research fellow at the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association, told the Global Times Wednesday that many still doubt the truth of North Korea's claims about their hydrogen bomb.
A senior US administration figure said it could take days to obtain the scientific data to determine whether this was a successful test, CNN reported.
"It's hard to believe that North Korea can successfully develop a hydrogen bomb without other nations' help, since the country's industrial capability may not meet the requirements for producing hydrogen bomb," Zhai said.
The explosion is likely to have been caused by a powerful atomic bomb, Zhai added.
"Developing a hydrogen bomb requires sophisticated technologies, the so-called hydrogen bomb is likely to be a nuke that is somewhere between a conventional nuke and a hydrogen bomb Keanu Neal Falcons Jersey ," Jin Qiangyi, director of the Asia Research Center, China's Yanbian University, told the Global Times.
North Korea's relatively basic technology has led to several failures in the country's weapon tests.
A South Korean military official said on Wednesday that North Korea conducted its latest ejection test with a ballistic missile from a submarine last month and that seemed to end in failure, adding that it is expected to take "considerable time" for the secretive communist country to master submarine-launched ballistic missile-related technology, Yonhap News reported.
Will the nuclear test affect China?
According to China Central Television reports, during the North Korean nuclear test Takkarist McKinley Falcons Jersey , an earthquake was felt by residents in the Yanji, Huncun and Changbai areas of Northeast China's Jilin Province. A playground at a Jilin high school cracked due to the tremors, which led to the immediate evacuation of all students, interrupting an examination.