# DPRK conducts its sixth nuclear test; UNSC 2375 follows

Date: 2017

## The fact

On 3 September 2017 the DPRK conducted its sixth nuclear test. The Security Council adopted resolution 2375 on 11 September 2017.

## Context

KCNA claimed a thermonuclear warhead. Independent yield estimates were large. He commanded the programme. The Council wrote 2375; he did not.

Sixth test 3 September; Hwasong-15 28 November; 2375 on 11 September. Keep dates. Keep DPRK conducts its sixth nuclear test; UNSC 2375 follows on 2017-09-03 separate from neighbouring nuclear-test, camp, Vostochny, treaty, and troop-despatch instruments.

The President of the State Affairs Commission commands the armed forces and signs treaties.

## Evidence and sources

UN Security Council carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [missile-threat level](/drivers/missile-threat-level) and [sanctions pressure](/drivers/sanctions-pressure) from a completed sixth test and Chapter VII resolution, not the 1949 [nuclear-escalation-risk](/drivers/nuclear-escalation-risk) row.

## What is established and what is not

Established: A nuclear test on 3 September 2017 and UNSC 2375 on 11 September 2017.

Not established: A unique 2017 US casualty coefficient from the yield.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The nuclear bureau executed. The Security Council wrote 2375.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies DPRK conducts its sixth nuclear test; UNSC 2375 follows, not a later speech about DPRK conducts its sixth nuclear test; UNSC 2375 follows.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. DPRK conducts its sixth nuclear test; UNSC 2375 follows on 2017-09-03 is not a licence to treat every later UN Security Council communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average DPRK conducts its sixth nuclear test; UNSC 2375 follows into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He commanded the programme. The nuclear bureau executed. The Security Council wrote 2375. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kim Jong-un: https://factrail.ai/people/kim-jong-un

## Drivers

- Missile-Threat Level: https://factrail.ai/drivers/missile-threat-level
- Sanctions Pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/sanctions-pressure
- Nuclear Deterrence Stability: https://factrail.ai/drivers/nuclear-deterrence-stability
- Nuclear Escalation Risk: https://factrail.ai/drivers/nuclear-escalation-risk

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-nuclear-idUSKCN1BE0Y20170903/
- https://undocs.org/S/RES/2375(2017)

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/kp-nuclear-test-2017