The North launched its most powerful nuclear test on Friday, sparking concerns that the country is making headway in its ambitions to develop sophisticated warheads for missiles.
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“In addition to action in the Security Council, both the US and Japan, together with the Republic of Korea, will be looking at unilateral measures, as well as bilateral measures, as well as possible trilateral cooperation”, said Sung Kim, the envoy.
The government in Seoul will take “all diplomatic and military efforts to counter North Korea’s continued provocation”, senior presidential secretary for foreign affairs Kim Kyou-Hyun told reporters on Sunday.
Bad weather on Monday also delayed a United States plan for at least 24 hours to send warplanes from Guam to South Korea in a show of force, as it has done in the past after major provocations by North Korea. The United States, Britain and France pushed for the 15-member body to impose new sanctions.
Hundreds of activists on Saturday set fire to an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un here in protest against Pyongyang’s fifth nuclear test.
“We have made overture after overture to the dictator of North Korea”, he said, adding that he ultimately hoped for a similar outcome as in the nuclear talks in Iran.
North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test last Friday, resulting in another round of worldwide condemnation.
The UN Security Council (UNSC) says it will begin to prepare a new round of sanctions against North Korea in the wake of Pyongyang’s recent nuclear test.
“And North Korea is undergoing a real acceleration of both its missile and nuclear programmes under the leadership of Kim Jong-un, and so this is the assessment as things stand of South Korea”.
In response to the test, the South Korean Defense Ministry presented the Massive Punishment & Retaliation (KMPR) concept which reportedly contains the plans to annihilate sections of the North Korean capital.
Pyongyang confirmed on Friday it had conducted a fifth, “higher level” nuclear explosion which officials hope will allow them to build stronger, smaller and lighter nuclear weapons.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced on Sunday that it will continue to develop its nuclear capability despite increasing condemnation by the global community.
“Our nuclear scientists staged a nuclear explosion test on a newly developed nuclear warhead at the country’s northern nuclear test site”, a TV presenter said.
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