If North Korea Goes Ahead With Its Threat To Do An Above-Ground Nuclear Test, This Is How It Would Go Down

Alex Lockie, Aol/Business Insider: North Korea has been threatening an aboveground nuclear detonation — here's how it could go down

* North Korea has threatened to detonate a nuclear device aboveground.
* Such a test could turn China, and the world, against it.
* The US may even strike to prevent it, but North Korea may do it anyway.

North Korea recently repeated its threat to test a nuclear device aboveground, in what would be its most dangerous and provocative move ever, unleashing a massive explosion and hale of radiation that could turn the world decisively against it.

After President Donald Trump threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea if provoked, Pyongyang responded by saying it may test "an unprecedented scale hydrogen bomb," which experts interpreted as possibly meaning a detonation of a nuclear-armed missile above the Pacific.

But regardless of what Trump says, North Korea has reasons to test aboveground.

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WNU Editor: If North Korea wants to freak out the world .... specifically it's neighbors (China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia) .... it would be to detonate an above-ground hydrogen bomb. I can easily see the reaction right now. The leaders would be beyond upset and angry, but the public in all of these countries would be beyond livid. Complete and total sanctions by every neighboring country would be the immediate action. A naval blockade would be next. And expect the biggest arms buildup on the borders of North Korea in a manner that has not been seen for generations.