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1. Defense Ministry: Will Pursue Temporary Deployment of THAAD KBS : 2017-09-04 14:59:20 - Four THAAD launchers which are being stored at Camp Carroll in North Gyeongsang Province are expected to soon be brought onto the THAAD base. Some observers say the move could be completed within this week.
2. US Provoking Conflict With North Korea to Justify THAAD Deployment - Assange Sputnik 2017-09-04 - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that the United States might be provoking conflict with Pyongyang to justify deployment of US-made THAAD missile systems in South Korea,
3. DPRK Nuclear Weapons Institute on Successful Test of H-bomb for ICBM Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) Symmetrical compression of nuclear charge, its fission detonation and high-temperature nuclear fusion ignition, and the ensuing rapidly boosting fission-fusion reactions, which are key technologies for enhancing the nuclear fusion power of the second-system of the H-bomb, were confirmed to have been realized on a high level.
4. NK nuke test up to 8 times more powerful than Nagasaki bomb: Chinese scientists By Bai Tiantian Source : Global Times Published: 2017/9/4 - Chinese scientists measured North Korea's latest nuclear test on Sunday at 108 kilotons, which is three to 7.8 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.
5. N Korea likely getting ready for new ICBM test: South Korean military Iran Press TV Mon Sep 4, 2017 - Seoul’s defense officials told a parliamentary briefing that Pyongyang’s nuclear test a day earlier had an estimated strength of 50 kilotons, making it five times the size of its previous test in September 2016.
6. DPRK's latest nuke test draws strong condemnation from int'l community Source:Xinhua Published: 2017/9/4 - The latest nuclear test by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has continued to arouse strong condemnation by countries and international organizations alike, which called for addressing the new provocation and resuming dialogue to solve problems.
7. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang's Regular Press Conference on September 4, 2017 China stays committed to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and opposition to the DPRK's nuclear and missile development. This position is known to all, and the DPRK has been very clear about this.
8. Trump's rhetoric on N Korea 'could lead to great danger': Ex-CIA chief Iran Press TV Mon Sep 4, 2017 6:25PM - US President Donald Trump’s provocative rhetoric on North Korea “could lead to great danger," says retired General Michael Hayden, who served as both the director of the NSA and the CIA.
9. Remarks at an Emergency UN Security Council Briefing on North Korea US Ambassador Nikki Haley September 4, 2017 - The idea that some have suggested of a so-called freeze-for-freeze is insulting. When a rogue regime has a nuclear weapon and an ICBM pointed at you, you do not take steps to lower your guard. No one would do that.
10. S. Korea's spy agency not ruling out possibility of further provocations Arirang News 2017-09-04 South Korea's intelligence agency says construction of the third tunnel at the North's Punggye-ri test site was complete, and work is underway on another.
11. Leaders of South Korea, Japan agree to bring never-before-seen powerful measures against North Korea Arirang News 2017-09-04 20:01:23 KST - South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will together seek ways to come up with the strongest set of measures possible against North Korea including a new, more powerful UN Security Council resolution following its sixth nuclear test the day before.
12. Large nuclear test in North Korea on 3 September 2017 NORSAR has recorded signals from an underground nuclear test explosion conducted by North Korea at its Punggye-ri test site on 3 September 2017. NORSAR has estimated the explosive yield at 120 kilotons TNT, based on a seismic magnitude of 5.8.
13. Kim Jong Un Gives Guidance to Nuclear Weaponization Sep. 3, Juche 106 (2017) Sunday RODONG SINMUM - The H-bomb, the explosive power of which is adjustable from tens kiloton to hundreds kiloton, is a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP attack according to strategic goals.
14. Kim Jong Un Gives Guidance to Nuclear Weaponization Date: 03/09/2017 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) Kim Jong Un guided the work for nuclear weaponization on the spot. He was greeted by senior officials of the Department of Munitions Industry of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and scientists of the Nuclear Weapons Institute before being briefed on the details of nuclear weaponization.
15. North Korea conducts ‘successful’ H-bomb test Press TV [Iran] Sun Sep 3, 2017 4:27AM North Korea says it has conducted a “successful" hydrogen bomb test, hours after two tremors were detected in the country. North Korean state television said on Sunday that, “The hydrogen bomb test was a perfect success," adding that the device was capable of being loaded onto long-range missiles.
16. US Says Any North Korean Threat Will Draw 'Massive Military Response' Last Updated: September 03, 2017 4:35 PM Brian Padden, Steve Herman, Ken Bredemeier, Ken Schwartz - VOA SEOUL / WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis says any threat by North Korea to the United States or its allies will be met with a "massive military response ... both effective and overwhelming."
17. Mattis, Dunford Brief President on Military Options Available to Deal With North Korea By Cheryl Pellerin DoD News, Defense Media Activity - WASHINGTON, Sept. 3, 2017 — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, standing in front of the White House this afternoon after the latest and largest nuclear test carried out by North Korea, said the United States has many military options for dealing with Kim Jong Un's provocations and that President Donald J. Trump wanted to be briefed on each one.
18. Arirang - Updated: 2017-09-03 16:13:15 KST - N. Korea's sixth nuclear test embarasses Chinese President Xi Jinping as he hosts BRICS summit meeting China may be one of the countries most outraged by Pyongyang's sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sunday as Beijing has been one of the few calling for ''dialogue''' as preferable to tougher sanctions. Beijing expressed strong condemnation of North Korea's nuclear test and called on Pyongyang to stop provocative acts that worsen the situation on the Korean peninsula.
19. Efforts to detect and destroy mobile launchers 'laughable': N. Korea state media Arirang 2017-09-02 North Korea is warning South Korea and the United States that they will NOT be able to locate the regime's mobile missile launchers.
20. Is 'Make America Great Again' Racist? August 31, 2017 11:04 AM Marissa Melton VOA - Daryl Davis, a black musician who has made a practice of befriending members of the Ku Klux Klan, says he knows exactly what racists hear in the slogan "Make America Great Again." Donald Trump "won the election on one word, one word only. And that word was 'again,' " Davis says. "When was 'again?'

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