South Korea has resumed propaganda broadcasts via loudspeaker over the border into North Korea.
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Hydrogen bombs are more powerful and technologically advanced than atomic weapons, using fusion – the merging of atoms – to unleash massive amounts of energy.
“Tunes heading north across the 4km demilitarised zone towards North Korean frontline positions included recent upbeat dance hit Bang, Bang, Bang and a girl band offering featuring the lyric: ‘We’re both so shy/But I wanna go closer to you'”.
He also added that Japan might take unilateral action, saying it is “considering measures unique to our nation”, without detailing what those measures might be.
The White House said President Barack Obama had spoken to South Korean President Park Geun-Hye and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan.
North Korea’s state media called the test a self-defence measure against a potential U.S. attack.
– Seoul’s Defense Ministry says the military leaders of South Korea and USA discuss the deployment of US “strategic assets”, likely referring to nuclear-powered submarines and warplanes, in the wake of the North’s nuke test.
Observers expect North Korean officials to be angered by the decision.
Unless the global community is ready to come to a truce with the Kim regime, “denuclearising North Korea at this moment is nearly impossible”, said worldwide relations professor Park Ihn Hwi of Ewha Womans University.
The council last approved sanctions against North Korea three weeks after Pyongyang’s third nuclear test on February 12, 2013. It was developed the United States in 1958.
Asked about a suggestion from U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump that China could do more to rein in North Korea, Hua said: “What constructive efforts have they made?”
The UN Security Council has pledged new sanctions against North Korea after its purported hydrogen bomb test on Wednesday. It’s also trying to develop long-range missiles.
The Foreign Secretary said the North Koreans were baiting Seoul and its allies by claiming to have successfully tested their first hydrogen bomb.
North Korea, which first tested a nuclear weapon in May 2009, has been under USA sanction over its nuclear program since at least 1992.
The broadcasts, which North Korea considers an act of psychological warfare, are expected to draw a furious response in part because Friday is believed to be the birthday of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un and the broadcasts are meant to raise questions about the infallibility of the ruling Kim family.
However, he said Thursday that the approach was no longer welcomed by the United States.
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South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers that it thought the estimated explosive yield from the blast was much smaller than what even a failed hydrogen bomb detonation would produce.
