朝鲜宣布成功试验首枚氢弹后续报道

North Korea has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, according to the country’s official Korean Central News Agency.

据朝鲜官方通讯社朝中社(Korean Central News Agency)报道，朝鲜成功试验了一枚氢弹。

If confirmed this would be the country’s fourth nuclear test and its first hydrogen bomb.

如果该消息得到证实，这将是朝鲜进行的第四次核试验，同时也是朝鲜试验的第一枚氢弹。

Earlier on Wednesday a tremor was detected near one of North Korea’s nuclear test sites. The China Earthquake Networks Center in Beijing described an event as a “suspected explosion.”

周三早些时候，外界监测到朝鲜一核试验基地附近发生了一次地震。位于北京的中国地震台网中心称，此次地震为一次“疑爆”。

Market response was relatively subduded.

市场对此反应相对克制。

Of note, shares in Victek, a South Korea-listed military electronics manufacturer, rose as much as 30 per cent, following initial reports of a “man-made earthquake” in North Korea.

值得注意的是，朝鲜发生“人为地震”的初步报道发表后，韩国上市军用电子产品制造商Victek的股价一度攀升了30%。

South Korea’s Kospi Composite was down 0.6 per cent.

韩国综合指数(Kospi)下跌了0.6%。

Elsewhere, currency markets were relatively calm. The Korean won remained 0.5 per cent weaker at Krw1,194.63 per dollar, while the Japanese yen was 0.3 per cent stronger at Y118.64 per dollar.

外汇市场相对平静。韩元兑美元汇率跌至1美元兑1194.63韩元，跌幅仍为0.5%。日元兑美元汇率上升了0.3%，至1美元兑118.64日元。

Gold, historically viewed as a haven asset, was 0.1 per cent higher to $1,078.75 an ounce, while the dollar index, a measure of the US currency against a basket of global peers, was 0.1 per cent weaker at 99.29.

历来被视作避险资产的黄金，价格上涨了0.1%，至每盎司1078.75美元。美元指数下跌0.1%，至99.29。

North Korea’s last nuclear test was in 2013; last month, leader Kim Jong Un claimed for the first time that Pyongyang had developed a hydrogen bomb, in defiance of UN sanctions, drawing a sceptical response from analysts.

朝鲜上次进行核试验是在2013年。上个月，朝鲜领导人金正恩(Kim Jong Un)首次宣称，平壤方面顶住联合国制裁的压力研制出一枚氢弹。分析人士对此则持怀疑态度。

A month ago Mr Kim was reported as saying: Today our nation has succeeded in becoming a mighty nuclear state, which can resound with the roar of nuclear and hydrogen bombs that can strongly guard the nation’s sovereignty and the people’s dignity.

据报道，一个月前金正恩曾表示：“今天我国已成为一个核强国，已准备好使用核弹和氢弹来维护国家主权和民族尊严。”