The letters read “Overthrow Kim Jong Un”.
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US State Department’s Special Representative for North Korea Policy Ambassador Sung Kim shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Director-General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Kenji Kanasugi prior to a meeting at the foreign ministry in Tokyo.
The U.S. and its allies have strongly condemned the test and vowed to tighten economic sanctions against the country.
South Korea’s military said on Monday that North Korea was ready to conduct another nuclear test following its fifth nuclear detonation. Yonhap did not elaborate.
Cyprus condemns the latest nuclear test carried out by North Korea on Friday and has called on the Pyongyang leadership to abandon its nuclear programme and resume negotiations with the global community.
China, regarded as North Korea’s only ally, could be pressed to take the strongest possible action by blocking the transportation of fuel and oil but that could have grave consequences for the general population.
South Korean reports suggest the USA is set to send a B-1B bomber from Guam to the Korean peninsula on Tuesday, in a show of strength and solidarity with Seoul.
It was the fifth that North Korea has done and the most powerful to date.
“In other words, the North’s capital city will be reduced to ashes and removed from the map”.
North Korea is ready for another nuclear test in a previously unused tunnel at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site, say Seoul government sources.
The UN Security Council has already agreed to start drawing up new sanctions against North Korea, something the North called “laughable”.
North Korea’s pursuit of missiles and nuclear weapons is one of the most intractable foreign policy problems for the USA and South Korea. Regional disarmament-for-aid talks on the North’s nuclear ambitions have not been held since late 2008. The United States, the United Kingdom and France are reportedly leading the push for new sanctions.
The statement said China’s stance has always been to achieve denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, prevent nuclear proliferation, and maintain peace and stability in Northeast Asia.
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The South has no atomic weapons of its own and shelters under the nuclear “umbrella” of its U.S. ally, which stations 28,500 troops in South Korea.
