North Korea's first nuclear test
October 9, 2006
Seismographs in South Korea picked up a small tremor near a remote mountain in North Hamgyong province. Pyongyang announced its first nuclear test. The bang was small, the message was loud, and the Kim regime joined the nuclear club. Future tests would be larger; the diplomacy that followed achieved very little.
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