SEOUL: North Korea appeared to have carried out a nuclear test Wednesday—its fourth—with seismologists detecting a 5.1 magnitude tremor next to its main atomic test site in the northeast of the country.

The website of the China Earthquake Network Centre described the seismic activity, which came just two days before North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s birthday, as a “suspected explosion”.

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