NKorea vows to boost weapons programs

SEOUL: North Korea vowed Wednesday to accelerate its weapons programs in response to “evil” sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council following its latest and most powerful nuclear test.

The respected 38 North website in the US raised its estimate for the yield from the explosion, which Pyongyang says was a hydrogen bomb small enough to fit onto a missile, to around 250 kilotons—more than 16 times the size of the device that devastated Hiroshima in 1945.