North Korea tests nuclear weapon 'as powerful as Hiroshima bomb'

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Justin McCurry in Tokyo and Tania Branigan in Beijing
Monday 25 May 2009

North Korea today risked further international isolation after it claimed to have successfully tested a nuclear weapon as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

The test comes less than two months after the North enraged the US and its allies by test firing a long-range ballistic missile.

The KNCA news agency, the regime's official mouthpiece, said: "We have successfully conducted another nuclear test on 25 May as part of the republic's measures to strengthen its nuclear deterrent." the rest