This alarms North Korea's
adversaries because the nation recently detonated a thermonuclear
device that yielded the energy of perhaps 300 kilotons of TNT — about 20 times
as much
as the bomb the US detonated over Hiroshima in 1945.
In only three connections is Satan even mentioned in the Old Testament — once
as evilly disposed to Job but doing nothing without God's permission, (Job 1:6:12; 2:1 - 7) once
as tempting David to take a census, (I Chronicles 21:1) and once
as the symbolic
adversary of Israel (Zechariah 3:1 - 2)-- and nowhere are the tragedies of individuals or of nations fathered on him
as though by that
device the ultimate responsibility of God could be mitigated in the least.
«When an
adversary has physical control of a
device — such
as a stolen cell phone — software defenses alone aren't enough; we need to use tamper - resistant hardware to provide security,» Liu says.