REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian government has denounced North Korea's test of hydrogen bomb on Sunday, the Foreign Ministry said in a press statement released on Monday.

The test of the newest nuclear weapon is the sixth of its kind the North Korean government has conducted since early this year.

The Indonesian government denounced the test of nuclear weapon as it has released various radioactive materials which may endanger the environment and population health in many regions.

The test deviated North Korea's obligation to adhere to the relevant resolutions issued by the UN Security Council, the Indonesian government said.

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Indonesia, which has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is committed to encouraging the international community to free the world from any type of nuclear weapon test and explosion, it said.

To that end, the Indonesian government reiterated the significance of stability in the Korean Peninsula and asked all sides to contribute to the creation of global peace, including denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.

On Sunday, North Korea detonated its sixth and most powerful nuclear test device, leading to a shallow magnitude 6.3 earthquake, which shook the country.

The earthquake occurred a few hours after North Korea announced it had developed an advanced hydrogen bomb. 

"The H-bomb, the explosive power of which is adjustable from tens kiloton to hundreds kiloton, is a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack according to strategic goals," KCNA said.

"All components of the H-bomb were homemade and all the processes ... were put on the Juche basis, thus enabling the country to produce powerful nuclear weapons as many as it wants," KCNA quoted Kim as saying.

Juche is North Korea's homegrown ideology of self-reliance that is a mix of Marxism and extreme nationalism preached by state founder Kim Il Sung, the current leader's grandfather. It says its weapons programmes are needed to counter U.S. aggression.

North Korea offered no evidence for its latest claim, and Kim Dong-yub, a military expert at Kyungnam University Institute of Far Eastern Studies in Seoul, was sceptical.

Referring to tens to hundreds of kilotons, it doesn't appear to be talking about a fully fledged H-bomb. It's more likely a boosted nuclear device," Kim said, referring to an atomic bomb which uses some hydrogen isotopes to boost explosive yield.

A hydrogen bomb can achieve thousands of kilotons of explosive yield - massively more powerful than some 10 to 15 kilotons that North Korea's last nuclear test in September was estimated to have produced, similar to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

Impoverished North Korea and the rich, democratic South are technically still at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. The North regularly threatens to destroy the South and its main ally, the United States.

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