Kim Jong-un's nuclear scientists paraded in North Korea

North Korea has held a mass celebration in honour of the nuclear scientists involved in developing the bomb used in its latest test.

Tens of thousands gathered in the capital Pyongyang to cheer a convoy of buses carrying the specialists into the city and attend a celebratory mass rally, complete with fireworks and threats of nuclear war.

Military officials who spoke to the crowds in the capital’s Kim Il-Sung Square swore that North Korea would ‘put an end’ to the U.S. and its allies.

Explosive: Korean People’s Army (KPA) soldiers cheer during a mass celebration in Pyongyang for scientists involved in carrying out North Korea’s largest nuclear blast to date

Applause: Military leaders told the crowds that North Korea would destroy the United States

Approval: The crowd applauded as officials swore to’put and end’ to Western nations in front of a banner reading ‘no-one can stop us on our road to the future’

The celebration began with a parade, where the scientists behind the new nuclear bomb tested, allegedly a H-bomb, were cheered on by Pyongyang citizens waving pompoms.

The crowds then gathered in Kim Il-Sung square, named after dictator Kim Jong-Un’sa grandfather who ‘founded’ the totalitarian regime.

‘We offer the greatest honour to Comrade Kim Jong-Un, the Supreme Leader who brought us the greatest achievement in the history of the Korean people,’ read one banner in the plaza, where tens of thousands of people were gathered.

Another, with a picture of a missile on a caterpillar-tracked transporter, proclaimed: ‘No-one can stop us on our road to the future.’

Great party: Dancers take part in the parade before the mass rally on Tuesday

Cheering on: Pyongyang citizens dressed in traditional and more modern clothing wave flags and cheer a during the parade

Grand gathering: After the convoy, Kim Il-Sung square was filled to the brim with people celebrating the country’s ‘achievement’

Brainwashing: Banners in the square called the H-bomb test ‘the greatest achievement in the history of the Korean people’

The blast triggered global condemnation and calls by the US, South Korea, Japan and others for stronger United Nations Security Council sanctions against the North.

The official Korean Central News Agency described it as a ‘successful ICBM-ready H-bomb test’.

Speakers at the rally said the North’s military ‘will put an end to the destiny of the gangster-like US imperialists through the most merciless and strongest preemptive strikes if they and the hordes of traitors finally ignite a war’, KCNA reported.

Sunday’s blast was the North’s sixth nuclear detonation and by far its biggest to date.

It’s all going off: The evening ended with a firework display over the square

Soldiers watching fireworks in awe during a mass celebration in Pyongyang

No holding back: No expense was spared during the grand explosives display on Tuesday

‘IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO SCARE NORTH KOREA’, SAYD PUTIN

Russian President Vladimir Putin said hysteria around the North Korean crisis was counterproductive, adding that Pyongyang would not end its nuclear programme because it views them as its only means for self-defence.

‘It’s impossible to scare them,’ Putin said.

Speaking at an economic forum in Vladivostok, he said that for North Korea, the benefits of sanctions being lifted are outweighed by the security risks.

‘We are telling them that we will not impose sanctions, which means you will live better, you will have more good and tasty food on the table, you will dress better, but the next step, they think, is an invitation to the cemetery. And they will never agree with this.’

Hydrogen bombs, or H-bombs, are thermonuclear weapons far more powerful than ordinary fission-based atomic bombs, and use a nuclear blast to generate the intense temperatures required for fusion to take place.

Foreign governments have yet to confirm whether Sunday’s blast was a full two-stage thermonuclear weapon, or an enhanced fission device.

Working out its size depends on factors including the magnitude of the earthquake generated, the depth at which it was buried, and the type of rock surrounding it.

Estimates vary from South Korea’s 50 kilotons to Japan’s 160. But all of them are far larger than the 15-kiloton US bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

North Korea in July carried out its first two successful tests of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), apparently bringing much of the US mainland into range.

Seoul and Washington early Thursday deployed four more launchers in the South for the THAAD missile defence system, whose presence has infuriated Beijing.

The move was part of measures to defend the South from the North, Seoul’s defence ministry said.

Their heroes: As soldiers march into the square, civilians wave and applause

Pyongyang citizens lined the streets to wave pom-poms and cheer a convoy of buses carrying the scientists involved in carrying out North Korea’s largest nuclear blast to date

A fisheye view shows the many thousands of people who joined in the celebrations, all perfectly lined up in the square

JAPAN DECLARES NORTH ‘A THREAT TO THE ENTIRE WORLD’

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called Thursday for the world to put the ‘greatest possible pressure’ on North Korea to abandon its nuclear missile programme.

‘The international community must unite in applying the greatest possible pressure on North Korea,’ he said just four days after Pyongyang staged its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date, which it described as a ‘perfect success’.

‘We must make North Korea immediately and fully comply with all relevant UN Security Council resolutions and abandon all its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner,’ Abe insisted.

‘North Korea is escalating an overt challenge to the peace, prosperity, law and order of the region and indeed the entire world.’

His remarks were made on the sidelines of an economic forum in the Russian port city of Vladivostok which is also being attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and South Korea’s Moon Jae-In.

On Wednesday, Washington demanded an oil embargo on Pyongyang and a freeze on the foreign assets of its leader Kim Jong-Un in a dramatic bid to force an end to the perilous nuclear stand-off.

South Korea has also pushed for moves to cut off Pyongyang’s key supplies of fuel oil, but Russia has dismissed such a call, while China is also reluctant to take measures that could trigger instability or a refugee exodus on its frontier.

Meanwhile, the EU is preparing to increase its own sanctions against North Korea, the bloc’s diplomatic chief said Thursday, as part of international efforts to punish the rogue state for its latest nuclear test.

‘I will put forward to ministers to work in the coming days to increase EU autonomous sanctions,’ Federica Mogherini said as she arrived for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Tallinn.

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Kim Jong-un’s nuclear scientists paraded in North Korea

‘IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO SCARE NORTH KOREA’, SAYD PUTIN

JAPAN DECLARES NORTH ‘A THREAT TO THE ENTIRE WORLD’