North Korea claims, or at least pretends, to have performed its first nuclear test. It may also have been a lot of conventional explosives set off just to give the impression.
The news sites do not tell us why they do this, for the simple reason that no one knows why North Korea deliberately chooses to annoy the rest of the world.
However, it seems likely that they simply want attention. They are like the little boy whose parents do not care for him, so he does something - anything - to catch their attention. He breaks a flower pot, they shout at him, and he got what he wanted - a recognition that he is there.
The cry for help from North Korea may be more than that, however. It may be like Grand Fenwick, which in the story started war against the US only in order to lose and subsequently get plenty of American help to become rich. It is in other words a very ill expressed cry for help.
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