LAST WEEK, John Pike, founder and director of globalsecurity.org, offered his opinion that the nuclear test conducted by North Korea may have been neither a “first test,” nor a test of a conventional fission bomb. Rather, Pike said that the North Koreans may have been testing a “trigger device” for a much larger hydrogen bomb (click here to read the original story).

Now CNN is reporting that North Korea plans to conduct as many as three additional tests. South Korean media outlets, on the other hand, seem less concerned with the number of tests than the type. This story from the Korea Times ran under the headline “North Korea Will Test H-Bomb,” and lends further credence to Pike’s theory: