I can't believe you are saying this. This weekend, I was talking about all of this with some friends of mine from UW in Seattle, and we stumbled into the realization that if pencilneck wanted an H-Bomb, he'd have to test the fission part of the bomb first.
Whole conversation stopped when we all realized the plausibility in Kim's action: the test was probably a success, and moreover, the announcement of another test supports the view that Kim is developing an H-bomb.
From there, the whole thing devolved into talk about why four half-drunk idiots on a porch smoking cigars can put this together, but the entire MSM can't.
It's a pretty major development cycle step to that, I'm sure he'd like one but you don't go from one test to or even 2 or 5 tests to H-bomb.
"John Pike, a leading expert on military affairs in the United States, said he believes the explosion was close to that of a small atomic bomb with limited power--the type normally used as a detonator for a hydrogen bomb."
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"Kim Myong-chol, director of the Center for Korean-American Peace, who is regarded as an unoffical spokesperson for Kim Jong-il has claimed in a radio interview that North Korea has an H-bomb and is ready to test it." - 10/16/2006 05:36 AM
Yep, I think that is exactly what he is doing. He has limited supplies of Plutonium and U235. As I understand it, extracting deuterium from seawater is fairly straight forward. He can build a large arsenal of H bombs with the plutonium he has on hand as initiators.