North Korea Claims 'Successful' Hydrogen Bomb Test

North Korea said Wednesday it conducted a "successful" hydrogen bomb test. The announcement on state television came less than a month after North Korean leader Kim Jon Un claimed his country had developed a hydrogen bomb. The United States and others quickly discounted that claim. A hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear bomb, is far more powerful than a atomic bomb. North Korea conducted three previous nuclear tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013. All of...

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