Hong Chol Hwa, director of the Law Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences, told KCNA:

The successful H-bomb test for ICBM is a great demonstration of the tremendous national power of Songun (military-first) Korea.

The only way of coping with the U.S. high-handed and arbitrary practices is to have a powerful strength.

In the name of the social scientists, I extend congratulations to the scientists and technicians in the nuclear field who fully demonstrated the tremendous might of the strategic nuclear force.

Kim Chang Sok, department director of the Ministry of Coal Industry, said:

It is the best way to respond with powerful nuclear deterrent to the U.S. imperialists who are violent toward the weak and subservient to the strong.

The sanctions and war touted by the U.S. would redouble the retaliatory will of the Korean people.

We will blow up the U.S., the den of evils, with our nuclear strategic weapons if it dares pounce upon us.

We will put spurs to coal production in the spirit of smashing with the hammer of self-reliance the sanctions of the U.S. imperialists and their vassal forces.