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    North Korea conducts its fifth nuclear test

    North Korea has conducted its fifth -- and perhaps biggest -- underground test of a nuclear bomb. It's the second test this year alone, and comes just after President Obama left a summit of Asian leaders in the region. What does this development mean for tensions in the region and for US efforts to enforce UN sanctions against the North?

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    KCRW placeholderBy Todd Purdum • Sep 9, 2016 • 1 min read

    North Korea has conducted its fifth -- and perhaps biggest -- underground test of a nuclear bomb. It's the second test this year alone, and comes just after President Obama left a summit of Asian leaders in the region. What does this development mean for tensions in the region and for US efforts to enforce UN sanctions against the North? Bruce Bennett is a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation and a specialist in Northeast Asian military issues.

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      Todd Purdum

      Politico

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      Evan George

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      Bruce Bennett

      RAND Corporation

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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    Fifteen years later, teaching 9/11 as a lesson in history
    1. 1:52North Korea conducts its fifth nuclear testYou’re reading this
    2. 8:53How do we remember 9/11? What should history teach?
    3. 42:21War stories from campaign trails past
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