“China has been very clear that it understands the need for a new UN Security Council resolution in response to the latest North Korean nuclear test”, Kim said.
Advertisement
Beijing also argues that Washington should talk to Pyongyang, but whether that is even a possibility depends on the outcome of the USA presidential election in November.
Typhoon Lionrock struck North Korea about two weeks ago.
“Our nuclear scientists conducted a nuclear test explosion of a newly developed nuclear warhead at the the nuclear test site in the north of the country”, said a presenter on the official North Korean television.
South Korea plans to mobilize its locally developed surface-to-surface ballistic missile arsenal for the operational concept, including Hyunmoo 2As, 2Bs and Hyunmoo 3s, according to the source.
“North Korea continues to blatantly violate its worldwide obligations, threatening the region through an accelerating program of nuclear tests and unprecedented ballistic missile launches that no nation should tolerate”.
South Korean activists launched tens of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border into North Korea on Thursday, denouncing its latest nuclear test and defying threats of retaliation.
Recently, the Institute for Science and International Security claimed to have identified the location of one of North Korea’s preliminary uranium enrichment plants that they suspected could have played a vital role in the country’s nuclear programme in the 1990s.
A humanitarian crisis due to flooding might be just the thing North Korea needs to hold stronger sanctions at bay since observers have already suggested the impoverished North Korean populace could be devastated by tougher measures. Currently, the South Korean and USA militaries are reportedly boosting their surveillance of the North and using spy satellites and other intelligence assets to closely follow developments around Punggye Village.
“We also believe that sanction is neither an end nor the only approach”. They also block property and interests in property of the North Korean government.
The report offers considerably more detail and grist for debates surrounding each of these recommendations that represent course corrections and departures from the Obama administration’s approach that has been built on pressure and deterrence while leaving open the possibility for dialogue-if North Korea is willing to credibly demonstrate its willingness to pursue denuclearization.
Advertisement
The US is flying B-1 bombers with non-nuclear cruise missiles in Europe and Asia to show China, Russia and North Korea its allies have “an unshakable commitment” towards the current world order. “China needs North Korea to counter the United States”.
