Question

Excerpt A

Answer 1

• Answer: Excerpt A

From the point of view of the North Korean state media, every nation should be able to exercise its legitimate right of sovereignty by putting in place some measures to defend itself against potential aggressors by leveling up to the military capabilities of those countries seen as potential aggressors.

• Answer: Excerpt B

The South Korean lawmaker claims that the measured effects of the explosive tested was way below the normal range of a hydrogen bomb, and was not even up to the standard of a failed hydrogen bomb, if it was even an hydrogen bomb that was tested in the first place.

The lawmaker does not believe the North Korean media's claim of the country actually testing an hydrogen bomb.

• His evidences against the North Korean media ranges from a way smaller seismic activity due to the explosion, to a small tonnage of explosion, that does not even match up to that of a failed hydrogen bomb test.

• Excerpt B is much more credible as it provides logical facts backed by a comparison between measurable variable factors of the supposed hydrogen bomb test against standard hydrogen bomb results.

• Events around North and south Korea that helped me make the decision to the answer above is the fact that North Korea has been known to scale up its capabilities in the world stage to intimidate South Korea and its United States ally.