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"This time they appear to have detonated the first stage propellant in mid-air," Byun Yong-Ik, an astronomy professor at Yonsei University, told Reuters.

From Reuters • Nov. 23, 2023

The site had been inactive since hosting the North’s sixth nuclear test in September 2017, when it claimed to have detonated a thermonuclear bomb designed for its ICBMs.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2022

Its last such test and sixth overall was in September 2017, when it claimed to have detonated a thermonuclear bomb designed for its intercontinental ballistic missiles.

From Washington Times • Jun. 7, 2022

Wray declined to say whether the pipe-bomb devices could have detonated, noting that investigators are “still trying to determine whether or not they were functional.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2018

The shock from the depth-charge—which appears to have detonated just about right to have the maximum effect—was terrific.

From Sea-Hounds by Freeman, Lewis R.