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Test to find out if it was hilo enriched uranium bomb and plu toniam or a hydrogen weapon. until they evaluate the particles and look at aspects of the test, anything that people are say suggest sheer guesswork. the reason that expertses in south korea and some in the united states are saying it could not have been a hydrogen test right now, is plu tonnium tests and hu test are in kilotons and hydrogen test is in megaton. there is skepticism of whether or not it could be a hydrogen test. what there is not yet, proof. we are waiting for as this gets analyzed. >> certainly that was the head

Hydrogen test. we are hearing from, as you say, both japan and also south korea that they haven't found any levels of radiation in the air in the atmosphere at this point. now, that's not necessarily unusual. we know that the japanese planes have been in the air to try to capture these dust particles to try to gain any kind of evidence of what was in that nuclear test. back in 2013, they failed to find any radioed activity in the air. so they were unable to test to find out whether or not it was uranium, plutonium with the makeup of that test was. the reason for that, one analyst tells me is b...

Strong international response against north korea. i've also heard from japan's prime minister shinzo abe who said it's a threat to japan's security. he says he condemns it and cannot tolerate such a nuclear test. we can see this condemnation from the regional powers and across the world starting to flood in. this time around, north korea claims it's a hydrogen test, a more powerful test than the previous tests it carried out before. if that's the case, senior u.s. administration officials say it could be days before they can confirm that or not. >> clearly the north koreans are delighted by t...

They do not have. they succeeded today. there are headlines all over the world saying they've got an h-bomb. i think the evidence indicates they do not. this was quite a small seismic event, kwequivalenkwiequivalent0 to 7,000 tons of tnt, actually smaller than their last test. even a failed hydrogen bomb test would give you a yield of 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 tons of tnt. so that's the primary reason right now most of us don't believe this is a hydrogen test. we'll know more over the next couple of days as we start to get atmospheric sampling. the comprehensive test ban treaty organization as a ...

>> i want to ask you about north korea. as a member of the intelligence committee, you have to share concerns about their claims of a hydrogen test. how credible is this claim? do you think they're bluffing? >> well, i'm not sure how credible it is. we have seen them make boastful claims that didn't pan out in the past. you know, i think it's certainly very probable that there was a nuclear explosion. we'll know soon whether it was a hydrogen or fusion explosion or whether it was something else. but regardless, it's a provocative act. it's an effort, i think, by the regime, not only to bolster...