Jeffery Lewis of the excellent Arms Control Wonk has an article about the recent North Korean nuclear test and has examined approximate yields made by a variety of authorities. The long and the short of it is that the actual yield will take some time to determine, if ever (there is still debate on the size of the last test in 2009). Lewis does say that at the present it would be best to say that the test was "several kilotons" or "on the order of 10 kilotons" which is bigger than the last test. With North Korea claiming more nuclear and missile tests coming, I'm afraid academics like Lewis will have a bigger sample size to work from.
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