The Possibly 'World-Changing' Move Kim Could Make Next

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Tensions between the US and North Korea continue to escalate. First the leader of the former threatened to wipe out the latter. Then Kim Jong Un followed up by calling Trump a "mentally deranged US dotard," and Trump capped that off with a new warning Friday, tweeting that Kim "will be tested like never before!" 

But the North this week also suggested a move that goes beyond words—and could lead to a "lot of dead fish": detonating a nuclear bomb a few hundred miles over the Pacific Ocean, per Reuters. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho dropped hints on a South Korean news channel (his own apparent musings, not official word from Kim) that the North may conduct "a historic aboveground test of a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean," per the Wall Street Journal.

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