The paper also accused South Korea’s leadership of being military gangsters and criticized South Korean President Park Geun-Hye of “groundlessly taking issue with the DPRK over its just measures for bolstering nuclear deterrence for self-defense”.
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U.S. President Barack Obama lashed out on the nuclear test last Friday in a statement issued by the White House, calling it a “grave threat” to regional security and to global peace and stability.
South Korea’s Chun-ma (C), a Self-Propelled Surface to Air Missile System, moves during an equipment demonstration in Goyang, north of Seoul, on September 10, 2016.
The United Nations security council denounced North Korea’s decision to carry out the test and said it would begin work immediately on a resolution.
North Korea says plans to increase sanctions on the country for recently carrying out a nuclear test were “laughable”.
The 15-member Security Council imposed severe sanctions on Pyongyang in March following its fourth nuclear explosion, including an export ban and asset freeze.
Power described it as brazen defiance of the worldwide community. The collapse of the regime could also put soldiers from South Korea and its United States ally on China’s border.
The Security Council met at the request of Japan, South Korea and the United States to agree on a response, despite resistance from Pyongyang’s sole ally China to calls for tougher measures.
“This nuclear test certainly places a burden on China, but I don’t think it will be [a] tipping point”, said Kim, the think tank fellow.
“The enemies can no longer deny the strategic position of our country as a nuclear weapons state.”
Chinese leaders fear that instability in Pyongyang could precipitate a flood of refugees into northeastern China and push a USA -friendly unified Korea right up to China’s doorstep.
Yun’s statement was made during a meeting with senior diplomats Saturday, a day after North Korea carried out its fifth nuclear test and the UN Security Council chose to mull a new resolution.
South Korea has a plan to destroy the North Korean capital of Pyongyang should the north mount a nuclear attack, a military official in Seoul said Sunday.
Pyongyang responded on Sunday by calling the threats of “meaningless sanctions… highly laughable”. “This has definitely put on a higher level [the North’s] technology of mounting nuclear warheads on ballistic rockets”.
“North Korea, like so many other things, is one more Hillary Clinton failure”, he was reported as saying.
The North has yet to demonstrate that it had deployed nuclear-capable missiles.
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South Korea’s main spy agency told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing after the test that it does not think North Korea now has the ability to develop nuclear weapons that can be mounted on ballistic missiles, but intelligence officials expressed worries that the North’s efforts to do so are progressing more quickly than previously thought, said Kim Byungkee, a lawmaker from the opposition Minjoo Party.
