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Test. should we automatically assume that the bomb that was tested, the nuclear bomb that was tested was a hydrogen device? >> well, that would be where they would be going. they've claimed that capability in the past. a 6.3 blast on a richter scale is a huge explosion, so it could very well have been a hydrogen bomb. a hydrogen bomb is much, much more -- has much more explosive potential than a fissile bomb. so i guess the koreans in a few minutes are going to tell us what it was, and i'm antnot sure should doubt them. everything they've said they're going to do they've pretty much done. >> y...

A professor. professor, thanks so much for joining us. we've been talking for the past several hours about where this places the world and this response now that north korea has achieved what the united states and other countries have said they won't tolerate, a nuclear armed north korea. >> well, look. this is a problem we've been trying to deal with for 20 year. at least with the administration of hillary clinton, we've tried to stone the nuclear development with north korea. they've tested before. they tested now today. we think now they might have been able to test successionfully the hydr...

New this morning, our reporter inside north korea, the country that claims that for the first time it exploded a hydrogen bomb. south korea planning to respond by blaring propaganda over loud speakers at the demilitarized zone. the rest of the world is flat out skeptical. officials say it was not a hydrogen device. so far no radiation has been detected but north korean officials say they will prove to cnn that the test was the real deal. our will ripley was traveled extensively in north korea is the only u.s. reporter in the capital of pyongyang. this is his report. >> reporter: john, i met ju...

Nations but many experts have their doubts. japan launched fighter jets to take radiation measurements and so far they report nothing unusual. the latest from senior foreign affairs correspondent drake -- greg is in our london bureau. >> reporter: indications we are getting as well, north korea did not test a hydrogen bomb. however according to experts, people watching north korea, the direction of their movement is alarming enough. on state television in north korea, the dictator kim jong un signing off on this alleged test of the h bomb of justice which our experts tell us today, he is serio...

And lethal nuclear weapons for us that they can. and so even if this were not a w hydrogen device, that's their intention and nothing is stopping them right now. >> and china is their backstop. it's their front door and back door for, you know, for all kinds of things, food, energy, all the supplies that they need. why would they do this and confront china this way? >> yeah, i mean, part of the answer, i think, quite frankly, is that the new young leader just doesn't care. his father, his grandfather, the first and second leaders of north korea had very deep relationships with china. but this ...