While disputing its claim about the test, Washington vowed to punish Pyongyang for its flagrant violations of UN Security Council resolutions.
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Park Geun-hye, the President of South Korea indicated that this was a highly provocative action on the part of the North. She also feels that newer and more stringent sanctions should be imposed against North Korea as a stern action.
A warning was issued by South Korea against North Korea on this Wednesday.
Analysts say the two governments – along with others in the region – will have drawn up contingency plans for a number of possible scenarios on the Korean peninsula, including indications of an imminent nuclear strike, an invasion of the South with conventional forces or the collapse of Kim Jong-un’s regime. But Myong Nam Choe, deputy ambassador at North Korea’s diplomatic mission in Geneva, told Reuters: “It was physically hand-delivered”.
Being North Korea’s most important political and economic protector, China has been under growing worldwide pressure to use more of its leverage over Pyongyang.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei said the focus of the UNSC must be on “denuclearization”.
South Korea has already set up walls of loudspeakers on the border that have been blaring bursts of anti-North Korean slogans and K-pop since last Friday.
The isolated state has long sought a peace treaty with the United States, as well as an end to the exercises by South Korea and the United States, which has about 28,500 troops based in South Korea.
“We’ll be working with China through the U.N. Security Council and also in our own bilateral discussions about how to demonstrate to North Korea that that is a path that leads to greater cost, consequences and isolation”, said Rhodes Wednesday at the Foreign Press Center. “At noon, Ri Chun Hee announced on the radio in a proud voice that North Korea has succeeded its 4 nuclear bomb test”.
The U.S. special envoy for North Korea, Sung Kim, met his South Korean and Japanese counterparts in Seoul on Wednesday and said they had agreed that a “meaningful” new sanctions resolution was needed from the Security Council.
Cyber security experts said a large amount of malicious codes developed in North Korea were spotted in South Korea on January 7 and 8.
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Rear Adm. Guan Youfei, director of the foreign affairs office of China’s Defense Ministry, conveyed the position to Yoon Soon Ku, director general on worldwide policy during talks at South Korea’s Defense Ministry, the official said.
