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Shortly after it detonated its fourth nuclear test last week, North Korean state media issued a lengthy statement justifying the explosion they knew would rile the world.

Officials said Washington debated sharing security techniques with Pakistan on at least two occasions — right after it detonated its first nuclear arms in 1998, and after the terrorist attack on the United States in 2001.

China has unveiled a plan to open the site where it detonated its first atomic bomb to tourists, state-run media reports.

Scott Stewart, vice president of global intelligence for the security firm Stratfor, recently wrote that Boko Haram made a "large operational leap" this year when it detonated its first suicide car bomb at police headquarters in Abuja.

It is not known whether the mortar round exploded prematurely inside its firing tube, whether it detonated among Marines after being fired or whether more than a single round exploded.

"While it is impossible to calculate precisely the impact of Shahzad's bomb had it detonated," prosecutors wrote, "the controlled detonation conducted by the J.T.T.F.

Pyongyang claims it detonated a hydrogen bomb in this latest test, which its state media swiftly described as "a perfect success". .

When Musharraf came to power in 1999,Pakistan was a virtual pariah in the worldof nations, sanctioned for its adventurism inKashmir, and for crossing the nuclear thresholdin 1998 when it detonated six nuclear devices.

North Korea conducted its most powerful nuclear test to date in September and claims it detonated a hydrogen bomb small enough to fit on the head of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Calmly delivered, it detonated 700 years of tradition.

Late last month it detonated a nuclear device and test-fired several short-range rockets.