President Park on Wednesday called for Chinese help to launch what she calls the “strongest†worldwide sanctions on North Korea over its recent nuclear test. The letters on the screen read ” South Korea resumed anti-North Korea propaganda broadcasts”.
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She also said China should realize it can not keep North Korea from conducting “a fifth or sixth nuclear test” until China’s commitment translates into action.
The U.N. Security Council has drafted a new sanctions resolution against North Korea after the communist country claimed it successfully carried out its first hydrogen bomb test.
South Korean troops fired at a North Korean drone that briefly penetrated the South’s airspace on Wednesday afternoon.
Amid calls from South Korea for China to take strict actions against Pyongyang, another report by Yonhap said that a Chinese ambassador to North Korea, Li Jinjun, recommended a stronger relationship for China with North Korea while addressing Chinese students living in Pyongyang.
Ms. Park, in a televised speech followed by a rare news conference Wednesday, said China should prove its resolve not to tolerate nuclear proliferation in the region. It’s a process that could mean pressure on banks that now do business with North Korea – including some in China.
It was spotted around 29 miles north of Seoul, near South Korea’s Mount Dora Observation Post.
South Korea’s president Park Geun-hye said South Korea will continue its loudspeaker campaign, calling it “the surest and most effective psychological warfare tool”.
It will likely face new United States sanctions and possible new UN sanctions, and has taken over headlines for the past week.
The US House of Representatives voted almost unanimously late on Tuesday to pass legislation to broaden sanctions on the North’s nuclear programme.
But apparently unperturbed by the prospect of further global isolation, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for an expansion of the size and power of his country’s nuclear arsenal, urging the “detonation of more powerful H-bombs”, the North’s state media reported.
She mentioned both the US and China and highlighted her desire for sanctions against North Korea.
North Korea says last week’s test was of a miniaturized hydrogen bomb – a claim dismissed by experts who argue the yield was far too low for a full-fledged thermonuclear device.
Schilling also said that South Korea acknowledges only three known SLBM tests, which have all been unsuccessful.
But North Korea has continued to tout the experiment as a victory for the state.
The ministry added that the shots did not hit the drone, and that it promptly returned to the northern side of the border after encountering the warning. She also said the most powerful threat against the totalitarian country is the truth.
Either way, the test has reignited tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
S outh Korea said on Wednesday it is working with the USA and other allies to develop a tough new sanctions regime against North Korea, a week after it tested a nuclear weapon.
South Korea has pledged to make efforts to help address Tokyo’s demand “in an appropriate manner”, though it said it is a matter to be decided by local activists who established it.
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It’s unsurprising that South Korea has been unable to change China’s calculus on the North Korea issues.
