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North Korean soldiers rest while building a fence near the North Korean town of Sinuiju Matthew Stafford Hoodie , opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong on Sunday. North Korea demanded on September 11 that the US recognize it as a "legitimate nuclear weapons state" following its fifth and largest atomic test. Photo: AFP


Chinese residents living near the North Korean border have expressed concern over the developments on the Korean Peninsula, worrying about radiation risks and dangerous North Korean army deserters.


Seismologists on Friday detected a 5.0-magnitude artificial earthquake centered around Punggye-ri, a nuclear test site located in North Korea's North Hamgyong province, which is some 100 kilometers from the Chinese border.


After the nuclear test, Chinese soldiers on the border began interrogating drivers of all the passing cars and checking their ID cards.


"It is because of the latest nuclear test," a group of soldiers in Mapai village Ziggy Ansah Hoodie , Yueqing township in Jilin Province, told a Global Times reporter. They demanded that all photos related to North Korean villages be removed from reporters' cameras, even if the pictures were blurred.


A pharmacy sales assistant surnamed Cui in the border city of Tumen, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Northeast China's Jilin Province, expressed her worries over the lasting impact of the nuclear tests.


"Radiation may currently stay at a normal level Austin Bryant Hoodie , but what if the later generations are gradually exposed to the radioactive contamination in the long-run?" Cui told the Global Times.


Yang Yanyan, a 34-year-old expectant mother, shared the anxiety.


"I'm worried that my future child, who will live and study here, will have to suffer from contaminated grain, water and air Will Harris Hoodie ," she told the Global Times with a frown.


The Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection said no signs of artificial radioactivity were detected in Northeast China as of Sunday, according to the ministry's daily results published on its official website.


The artificial quake was caused by a nuclear device with a yield estimated to be between 11.9 and 23.9 kilotons - the most powerful of Pyongyang's five nuclear tests to date. The yield may be higher than that of the "Little Boy" atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima in 1945 and close to that of "Fat Man" in Nagasaki, according to the seismic results sent to the Global Times by Wen Lianxing's group at the University of Science and Technology of China on Saturday.