Yun pushed Wang to “sternly punish” North Korea over the test, the South Korean foreign ministry said.
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“Jealous of the successful test of our first H-bomb, the U.S. and its followers are driving the situation to the brink of war, by saying they have resumed psychological broadcasts and brought in strategic bombers”, Kim Ki Nam, head of the ruling Workers’ Party propaganda department, said at Friday’s rally.
North Korea bragged Wednesday about the “spectacular success” of its first hydrogen bomb test, a defiant act that leader Kim Jong Un, in a statement read on state television, said would “make the world… look up to our strong nuclear country”.
Outside the Hermit Kingdom, however, Pyongyang’s hydrogen bomb claims are being treated with skepticism.
However, many believe the H-bomb test claim is little more than posturing by North Korea and will prove to be false. The previous three were carried out in 2006, 2009 and 2013. One condition was that Seoul turned the speakers off.
This is while US Navy Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin, commander of the 7th Fleet based in Yokosuka, Japan, says the Navy is watching North Korea closely after the country conducted its fourth nuclear test.
Count Bruce Bennett, a senior defense analyst at the nonpartisan Rand research group, among the skeptics.
Hydrogen bombs use a two-step process of fission and fusion that releases substantially more energy than an atomic bomb.
The Kaesong complex, located in North Korea on the border, opened in 2004 as a symbol of advances toward reconciliation between the Koreas, which are still technically at war since the 1950-1953 Korean War, a conflict that was never concluded with a final peace treaty.
On Thursday US Secretary of State John Kerry said he had told Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that China’s approach to North Korea had not succeeded.
A US official told CNN that an Air Force “sniffer” plane, a WC-135, may be sent to help measure for possible nuclear materials in the air.
The bursts range from K-Pop and recordings of casual conversations to discussions about the importance of human rights and the lives of South Korea’s middle class, according to the defence ministry in Seoul. As we reported, South Korea also questioned the claim. KINS official Lee Ki-hyeong also noted that other types of xenon isotopes used to confirm nuclear explosions weren’t detected. Earthquake Center technician Sara Meyer said Tuesday’s event registered a 5.1 magnitude, the same as in 2013.
“People are basing their assessments on the seismic readings which seem to suggest it was not a hydrogen bomb”.
“The China-North Korea relationship should not be dragged into antagonism”.
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Wednesday’s test angered both the United States and China, which was not given prior notice, although the USA government and weapons experts doubt Pyongyang’s assertion that the device it exploded was a hydrogen bomb.
