2 Small Earthquakes Reported Near North Korean Capital Amid Missile Fears

The test fire of a ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea in an undated photo released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on May 30, 2017. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks on during the test-fire of inter-continental ballistic missile Hwasong-14. (KCNA/via Reuters)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (L) inspects a Hwasong-12 strategic ballistic rocket at an undisclosed location. The photo was released by North Korean state media on May 15.
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The magnitude-5.3 explosion took place about 11 miles from Sungjibaegam in the northeastern portion of the isolated country, it was reported at the time.

And North Korea then hailed the earthquake-causing nuclear “warhead explosion” as “successful.”

A view of U.S. military planes on the tarmac of Andersen Air Force base on the island of Guam, a U.S. Pacific Territory, Aug. 15, 2017. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)

“The Central Committee of the [ruling] Workers’ Party of Korea sent warm congratulations to nuclear scientists ... of the northern nuclear test ground on the successful nuclear warhead explosion test,” a presenter said.

World leaders, including former President Barack Obama, resoundingly condemned North Korea’s nuclear ambitions after the test.

Meanwhile, North Korea said it won’t fire a missile at the U.S. territory of Guam, posting a statement on the matter on Monday night, Aug. 14. It comes after President Donald Trump said that North Korea would regret taking such an action.

“If he does anything with respect to Guam or any place else that’s an American territory or an American ally, he will truly regret it, and he will regret it fast,” Trump said of Kim last week.