On January 6, Pyongyang claimed it had carried out its first hydrogen bomb test, which triggered condemnation from the worldwide community that denounced the test as provocative and undermining stability in the region, Sputnik reports.
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But apparently unperturbed by the prospect of further global isolation, Kim called for an expansion of the size and power of his country’s nuclear arsenal, urging the “detonation of more powerful H-bombs”, the North’s state media reported.
Especially related to loudspeaker broadcasts to North Korea, she said, “It is the most intensive and effective measure of psychological warfare against North Korea”. Attention is focused largely on such measures as restrictions on banking transactions involving North Korea and restraint on port calls by North Korean ships.
“I think it was the same for people around me who were also too busy worrying about their next meal to care about whether or not there had been a nuclear test”, she said.
Beijing has recently shown signs that it’s losing patience with North Korea over its repeated provocation.
Earlier, Yun held phone talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida shortly after the North’s test last Wednesday.
South Korean soldiers fired warning shots at a suspected North Korean drone that crossed the tense border.
North Korea released the submarine launch footage after it separately conducted a fourth nuclear weapons test last Wednesday.
The DPRK leaflets also criticized South Korean President Park Geun-hye and the hostile policy of the United States toward the DPRK, while threatening strike against the loudspeakers.
The North Korean object turned around after the South fired the shots, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
“Considering the North Korean government’s deceptive and reckless ways that was reaffirmed by its latest nuclear test, an additional North Korean provocation can take place any time”, Ms Park said, adding that Seoul and Washington were discussing the transfer of further USA “strategic assets” to the peninsula.
A nuclear capable U.S. B-52 flew close to North Korea over the weekend in a show of force meant to underline America’s alliance with the South.
Yesterday, the US House of Representatives voted almost unanimously to pass legislation that would broaden sanctions over North Korea’s nuclear programme. If true, it would mark a major development in Pyongyang’s nuclear program because such fusion weapons are potentially more powerful than the plutonium or enriched uranium fission weapons it has done before.
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What is important is for pertinent nations to take concerted action to reinforce sanctions against North Korea.
