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H-bomb claim not consistent: US

The White House says initial analysis is not consistent with North Korea's H-bomb claims.

Initial analysis of North Korea's reported nuclear test is not consistent with Pyongyang's claim of a successful hydrogen bomb test, the White House says.

"The initial analysis is not consistent with the claim the regime has made of a successful hydrogen bomb test," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a briefing on Wednesday.

He said the White House was working to learn more about the reported test, and that any nuclear test by North Korea would be "provocative and a flagrant violation" of United Nations Security Council resolutions.


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