The U.N. Security Council held an emergency session and pledged to swiftly pursue new sanctions against North Korea, saying its test was a “clear violation” of previous U.N. resolutions.
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The remark was made in reaction to Hwang’s urge for “close South Korea-China cooperation in taking differentiated, harsh action” in UNSC, according to the ministry. The seismic event recorded during Wednesday’s test, a magnitude of 5.1, is similar to those recorded during earlier nuclear tests conducted by North Korea, experts said.
South Korean officials said stopping the broadcasts was the main reason the North agreed at that time to end an armed standoff and express regret over a landmine explosion that injured South Korean soldiers.
“We have to be bigger than the North Koreans”, Hammond told reporters during a visit to Japan.
Separate statements from the White House said Obama and the two Asian leaders “agreed to work together to forge a united and strong global response to North Korea’s latest reckless behaviour”. “The China-North Korea relationship should not be dragged into antagonism”.
The anti-Pyongyang broadcasting was restarted in August 2015, for the first time in 11 years, amid a surge in tensions, but it was stopped in the same month after the August 25 inter-Korean agreement that defused the tensions.
The Japanese minister also stressed the need to use a joint military information sharing pact among South Korea, Japan and the U.S.in their efforts to jointly react to North Korea’s nuclear test.
He also reportedly wants direct talks with Washington, and the nuclear test put him right in the middle of the USA presidential race, where foreign policy already had become a major issue.
From Pyongyang’s perspective, however, a viable nuclear program is its only guarantee of avoiding any future attempt by the United States to try to trigger a “color revolution” in North Korea, or even carry out military action against Pyongyang.
North Korea was globally condemned by world powers and threatened with new worldwide sanctions after the country’s leader Kim Jong Un claimed that his nation had detonated a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday. The broadcasts include popular South Korean pop songs as well as news and comments about Seoul’s economic affluence and democracy, South Korean military officials say. It’s not – the readings are not large enough for it to be a hydrogen bomb.
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The outspoken billionaire, 69, said: “China should solve that problem and we should put pressure on China to solve the problem”.
