At a meeting of top security officials, South Korean President Park Geun-hye said: “We have to believe that Kim Jong-un’s mental state is spiralling out of control because he is not listening to any words from the global community or neighbouring countries in his attempt to cling to power”.
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Talks between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, facilitated by the United Nations, are “moving smoothly and well”, Ban said, and he’s hoping that an agreement on reunifying the divided Mediterranean island may happen before his term ends.
The blast, on the 68th anniversary of North Korea’s founding, was more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, according to some estimates.
‘As we’ve made clear, measures to strengthen the national nuclear power in quality and quantity will continue to protect our dignity and right to live from augmented threats of nuclear war from the United States’.
Penn: Well, my guess would be that there will be some kind of new sanctions but what you have to realize is that North Korea’s already under quite heavy sanctions and there’s not really many tools in the toolbox which are left remaining for them to use. “In other words, the North’s capital city will be reduced to ashes and removed from the map”, the source said. Council members also denounced the test, calling it a threat to worldwide security.
Gerard von Bohemen, New Zealand’s Ambassador to the United Nations, announced after presiding over an emergency meeting of the Security Council in NY on Friday “appropriate measures” aimed at Pyongyang were being developed.
“In addition to sanctions in the security council, both the US and Japan, together with [South Korea], will be looking at any unilateral measures as well as bilateral measures as well as possible trilateral cooperation”.
“We will deploy strike forces with precision-guided missiles and elite special forces”, Leem Ho-Young, chief director of strategic planning at Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters Friday.
“This is. yet another shocking disturbance of peace in the region and a real threat to peace in the region”.
Lui said: “We are opposed to testing and we believe that it is more urgent than ever to work together to ensure denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”.
In March, the Security Council adopted its toughest sanctions against North Korea in two decades in response to a nuclear test in January and a rocket launch.
“Now I am full of confidence that if the enemies make any little provocations we will make a counter attack and we will surely win”.
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North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test Friday, and all signs point to a weapons program of steadily increasing sophistication and power.
