South Korea’s president earlier Wednesday urged North Korea’s only major ally, China, to help punish Pyongyang’s recent nuclear test with the strongest possible worldwide sanctions.
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“We will make all efforts to pass a resolution for sanctioning North Korea internationally so that it will bring changes to North Korea’s attitude”. Ms. Park spoke as the South’s chief nuclear negotiator met with his Japanese and US counterparts to coordinate their responses to the North. The diplomacy came as the US House of Representatives late on Tuesday approved new legislation seeking the extension of US sanctions against the North Korea’s leadership.
Seoul also said that North Korea had flown leaflets across the border describing President Park Geun-hye and her government as “mad dogs”. “The best partners are those that will hold your hand in hard times”.
South Korea’s military fired warning shots after spotting an unidentified aerial vehicle approaching its heavily fortified border with North Korea, in the latest incident fueling tensions stemming from Pyongyang’s fourth nuclear test last week.
She said her country would continue its loudspeaker campaign of blasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda along the border which had prompted North Korean soldiers to defect to South Korea.
Park said Seoul and Beijing were discussing a draft U.N. Security Council resolution on North Korea.
Park said whether South Korea will take additional steps on the factory park is up to North Korea.
North Korea has repeatedly pledged to develop its economy and nuclear arsenal in tandem, viewing its nuclear program as a powerful deterrent against what it claims is Washington’s hostile policy toward it.
In it, he warned North Korea to meet global obligations. While the secondary boycott provisions are not compulsory, the Department of the Treasury and other agencies would be required to investigate financial institutions over a six-month period for North Korean accounts suspected of money laundering.
Relations between North and South Korea escalated since Pyongyang’s January 6 hydrogen bomb test. While experts have cast doubt on the test’s authenticity, several states have called for new sanctions against the country.
North Korea says last week’s test was of a miniaturised hydrogen bomb – a claim largely dismissed by experts who argue the yield was far too low for a fully fledged thermonuclear device.
38 North, a website run by Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies that monitors North Korean activities, said analysis of video of the launch and satellite imagery of the submarine and support vessels in port two days later “suggests that this test was probably conducted from a submerged barge” and appeared to have failed.
As the communist state has been under United Nations sanctions for its three previous nuclear tests, a mere reiteration of past restrictions will not be sufficient this time, according to the president.
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The report also said that Kim “set forth the important tasks to be fulfilled to bolster up the nuclear force”, and called for the “detonation of more powerful H-bomb in the future”. “I believe China will play a necessary role as a standing member of the U.N. Security Council”.
