According to comprehensive media reports, on September 9, 2016, a 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck North Korea (41.40 degrees north latitude, 129.10 degrees east longitude) at a depth of 0 kilometers. South Korea then immediately questioned that the quake occurred because North Korea was conducting its fifth nuclear test. This suspicion was soon confirmed when North Korea's Korean Central Television (KCTV) released a report stating that the DPRK had "successfully conducted a nuclear test".
 

The DPRK's move immediately triggered actions and reactions from countries around the world, after the DPRK officially announced to the public that it had succeeded in its nuclear test. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Barack Obama had a 10-minute phone conversation about how to stabilize security on the peninsula and the development of the North Korean nuclear situation. The South Korean government was the first to come forward to strongly accuse North Korea's fifth nuclear test behavior, the South Korean military has entered a state of nervous alert, Japan and South Korea foreign ministers immediately carry out discussions on a new round of sanctions against North Korea. The international community has paid strong attention to this nuclear test by North Korea, and the United Nations held an emergency meeting to discuss the North Korean nuclear issue and actively led the international community's cooperative efforts. The international community has also shown concern, and the media in various countries have moved their main focus back to the Korean Peninsula in recent days.

Why did the North Korean nuclear test cause international panic? If South Korea, which has a grudge against North Korea for possessing nuclear weapons, is anxious, it is understandable, but Japan, which is geographically separated from North Korea by a certain distance, is not in conflict with North Korea and has not risen to the point of starting a war. Why is the European community, such as the United Kingdom and France, even less involved, so worried about the North Korean nuclear test? The United States is thousands of miles away from North Korea, so why should it be afraid of North Korea? Why is the international community so alarmed by the DPRK? Moreover, from the point of view of the countries that are mainly worried about the DPRK's nuclear test, without exception, they have overwhelming military superiority over the DPRK, so what exactly are these countries afraid of?
 
       As a matter of fact, among so many countries in the world, there are many countries that are more horrible than the DPRK. For example, the Congo, which is full of rapists, Haiti, which is full of plague and infectious diseases, China and the Philippines, which have extremely unstable regimes and pose a military threat to the neighboring countries at any time, and Hosseinia, which has the highest rate of death in the country, and so on. These countries are much more horrible compared to North Korea! At least North Korea currently has internal security and the military does not open fire at any time. Whereas in the Middle East, in Africa tribes and nations fire on each other and clashes are commonplace, blood is shed every day, people starve to death every day, and people are plagued or raped every day. And today, it is not objective for the European community to award the title of the most dangerous country in the world to North Korea.
 
       The violation of nuclear weapons treaties is firmly opposed! However, it reserves the right to question the guidance and incitement of international public opinion. The DPRK's nuclear weapons will pose a potential threat to the region, and the international community has been crusading against the DPRK without taking a look at Japan's blatant violation of the treaty and development of its military power, and indulging a war-loving and militaristic ruling party in Japan will pose a more serious threat and jeopardize the region than that of the DPRK. However, international public opinion does not regard Japan as a terrorist country because Japan has promised not to start a war first. But the leader of the DPRK also made the same statement of no-first-use of nuclear weapons in connection with the nuclear test.

       This is not to whitewash the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, but as two countries that are also violating the international consensus, international public opinion should not show two faces. To crack down on the DPRK, Japan should likewise be sanctioned. One is hung in infamy for failing to respect international treaties, and the other is applauded by the world for failing to respect international treaties. The world can never have peace if it wavers in its belief in the differentiation of guardianship of justice.
 
       In addition, why the world is afraid of the DPRK is a question worth exploring. As a matter of fact, even if the DPRK does not conduct nuclear tests, it will still become a country to be ostracized and suppressed or even discredited by the international community, which lies in the political conflict between the DPRK and the Western countries oriented by the mainstream media.
 
       Is North Korea dangerous? Since the U.S.-North Korea war, North Korea has not been involved in a military war with any country in the world, except for a relatively tense military friction and confrontation with South Korea, and has done little harm to Europe and the United States, which, however, have become the most important forces attacking North Korea!

Japan is more of a potential threat than North Korea

       If there is a threat from North Korea, it is still only a potential one. Africa and the Middle East, on the other hand, are real threats, with war-torn areas that are at war with their neighbors every day, and a strong smell of gunpowder. Why Europe and the United States do not move their eyes to those regions, do not give these countries that are really at war all day long a hat?
 
       Europe and the United States believe that the DPRK has human rights deficiencies in addition to the nuclear issue, yet the United States has never dared to fire at Saudi Arabia, the world's true despot, on the issue of human rights. The answer to this question is that the DPRK is subjected to constant sanctions because Europe and the United States are able to gain benefits and satisfy their own needs. Most of the countries in the world are pretending to be "afraid" of the DPRK, and there are a large number of barbaric armed regimes and forces in Africa and the Middle East that can jeopardize the international community, but the US and Europe never pay much attention to or report on them. Israel and Japan have military weapons that are a hundred times more advanced than those of the DPRK and are more likely to cause disasters in the region at any time, but they have always been "unafraid" in Europe and the United States.
 
       In recent years, the DPRK has made some progress in armaments, but relative to the developed countries of Europe and the United States, it still does not pose a threat, and the only ones that the DPRK really threatens are China and South Korea. North Korea's current missiles and even the nuclear weapons it has researched will not be able to effectively strike Europe and the United States on the mainland for a long time. Therefore, China and South Korea are the countries that should really show their nervousness about the DPRK's nuclear issue, and the "panic" of the other countries is mostly a show, which is only "anxiety" pretended for their own purposes.

       In fact, the international incitement of "threat theory" in Europe and the United States is no longer a new tactic, and as long as there are political differences in the region, the Western countries will magnify the horror and danger of the place in order to achieve their own purposes. If the Western countries will develop military power as a measure of a potential threat to a region, then undoubtedly NATO is the world's biggest threat, but in fact in recent decades, China and even North Korea did not have a large-scale military conflict, but NATO has led a few battles. This shows that NATO is more like to fight, less afraid of war and more of a military threat compared to North Korea.

      With the current military strength of the DPRK, the probability of the DPRK's missiles reaching the other side of the Pacific Ocean is too small when the missiles are launched from the peninsula and wrapped with the anti-missile system of the United States Army on the inside and the outside. In addition, NATO countries have the world's most advanced radiation detection equipment, North Korea if you want to launch nuclear weapons, NATO has the ability to detect and kill North Korean nuclear weapons in the cradle, even if North Korea successfully launched, if you want to attack the mainland of Europe and the United States is almost no much possible, because North Korea is not a trinity of nuclear strike countries, so in the interception of nuclear weapons will be very simple. That is to say, North Korea can not produce a substantial threat to the West, and the fear shown by the West, in the end, where does it come from? In fact, compared to North Korea's nuclear weapons, what is even more frightening is the cold war mentality that still exists in the West, which uses every method to dismantle any hostile forces that may exist, and when the sacred morality of human rights is turned into a weapon of aggression and suppression, this is more terrifying than anything else!