While the international community has expressed outrage over North Korea’s claim of developing and testing a hydrogen bomb, President Obama had previously rejected offers in which North Korea volunteered to halt their own nuclear programs. Kim Jong-un offered to stop nuclear testing if the U.S and South Korea would agree to cancel their annual war games earlier in 2015. Sputniknews.com reports: The international community has expressed outrage over North Korea’s nuclear test conducted Wednesday morning, raising the possibility of new sanctions being put in place. To sift through the facts, Loud & Clear host Brian Becker sat down with Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project, Paul Liem, chairman of the Korea Peace Institute, and Daniel Jasper, advocacy coordinator for Asia at the American Friends Service Committee. While North Korea claims to have successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb, Kristensen has his doubts. “If you look at the other nuclear weapons states in the world, it took them many, many nuclear tests and many years to develop that type of technology,” he says. “So personally I’m a little doubtful that North Korea, within the span of just four tests, could have been able to somehow speed to that capability.” But even if Pyongyang’s claims are true, the United States may have no one to blame but themselves. Formerly a [...]