Would such a test be pretext to launch a bombing strike, especially since they would have to fire over Japan to do this nuclear test?:
The United States began using the Marshall Islands as a nuclear testing site beginning in 1946.
Hours later, Kim’s foreign minister told reporters in New York that Pyongyang could launch a nuclear missile test in response. “This could probably mean the strongest hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean. Regarding which measures to take, I don’t really know since it is what Kim Jong Un does,” said Ri. [CNN]