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To demonstrate their potential ability to threaten other nations with nuclear warheads.

This is exactly the same reason for the "space race" between the US and USSR in the 1960s... demonstrate which country could throw the largest hydrogen bomb, the farthest distance, the most accurately, without having to actually throw a hydrogen bomb.

The only difference is that North Korea has not yet built hydrogen bombs, only atomic bombs.

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