The ministry also said there had been no government decision on what North Korea needed to do to end the propaganda broadcasts.
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They include resuming propaganda broadcasts across the heavily armed border, which Seoul believes are a particular irritant to the regime.
He added that nothing had happened in the last 24 hours to change Washington’s assessment of Pyongyang’s technical or military capabilities.
The U.N. Security Council that has pledged new sanctions against North Korea after its purported hydrogen bomb test on Wednesday.
During his time in the Senate, Gardner has been a leader on the issue of North Korea, urging the Obama administration in April to take action following reports of the expansion of North Korea’s nuclear stockpile. Un might be termed as the ruthless dictator, but for North Koreans he is their saviour.
Commentary, news, and weather from around the world are mixed in with such K-pop hits as Let Us Love Each Other and South Korean boy band Big Bang’s megahit Bang Bang Bang.
– Seoul’s spy agency quickly disputes North Korea’s claim, saying that the seismic event was too small for an H-bomb, which is dramatically more destructive than an atomic bomb, but also much more hard to make.
Kim Jong-un’s secretive state said it successfully tested a miniaturised hydrogen bomb, a move that would be a significant advancement of its nuclear armoury, but experts have cast doubt on the claims.
On Thursday, South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to work together to push strong sanctions against North Korea by the worldwide community over its nuclear test. The August broadcasts were in retaliation for North Korea injuring two South Korean soldiers with mines.
“The initial analysis is not consistent with the North Korean claims of a successful hydrogen bomb test”, White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters this week.
After Mr Kerry’s comments, a U.S. official admitted that “China has an influence on North Korea that nobody else has”.
The South ended the broadcasts after an agreement was reached in August to de-escalate a situation that had brought the Korean Peninsula to the brink of an armed conflict.
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In a hydrogen bomb, a nuclear fission explosion sets off a fusion reaction responsible for a powerful blast and radioactivity. We can not tolerate those who conducted a nuclear test which was a violation.
