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When South Korea briefly resumed propaganda broadcasts in August after an 11-year break, Seoul says the two Koreas exchanged artillery fire, followed by threats of war.
“Our analysis… indicates that it’s not consistent with the North Korean claims of a hydrogen bomb test”, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook told reporters in Washington.
A male announcer could be heard from South Korea telling North Koreans that Kim Jong Un, the leader of their impoverished country, and his wife wear clothes costing thousands of dollars.
The South stopped earlier broadcasts after it agreed with Pyongyang in late August on a package of measures aimed at easing animosities were among a variety of punitive measures being considered.
Meanwhile, Nakatani claimed there is a chance that Pyongyang, faced again with global condemnation, might take more “provocative actions” – including a ballistic missile test.
The main newspaper in North Korea, the Workers’ Daily, hailed the country’s nuclear test as a success, and all the other state-controlled media left no doubt about the official report of the hydrogen bomb detonation.
“There is no hope to put an end to the North Korean nuclear conundrum if the US, South Korea and Japan do not change their policies toward Pyongyang”. The 2013 test, which also registered at 5.1 on the USGS scale, triggered immediate sanctions from the UN Security Council.
” The U.N. Security Council holds an emergency meeting and pledges to swiftly pursue new sanctions against North Korea”.
South Korean and USA military leaders also discussed the deployment of US “strategic assets” in the wake of the North’s test, Seoul’s Defense Ministry said Thursday. United States involvement could include nuclear-powered submarines, F22 Stealth combat fighters and B52 bombers.
The United States, Japan and South Korea, as well as Russian Federation and China, took part in talks on denuclearization of the Korean peninsula with North Korea from 2003 until 2009, when Pyongyang withdrew from the talks. Obama had announced a new round of sanctions but has since delayed implementing them. Yet Washington keeps on accepting it. Prior to its first surprise nuclear test in 2006, the USA said it would not permit North Korea to have a nuclear weapon.
A resolution was finally reached after North Korea “expressed regret” for the blasts and the South agreed to turn off the loudspeakers in return.
Skepticism from worldwide experts about North Korea’s claim to have conducted its first H-bomb test isn’t dampening spirits in Pyongyang.
Norsar said that based on the seismic readings, the event was equivalent to less than 10,000 tons of TNT, smaller than those of the atomic bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and far less than thermonuclear weapons that typically are as potent as millions of tons of TNT.
North Korea also said it was capable of miniaturizing the hydrogen bomb, in theory allowing it to be placed on a missile and threatening the U.S. West Coast, South Korea and Japan.
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However, the call had been delayed due to China’s “internal scheduling”, it said, citing an unidentified official.
