“The U.S. desperate moves for unilaterally putting sanctions and stifling the DPRK are a ugly crime against humanity aimed at subversion of the social system of a sovereign country”, the report said, using the acronym for North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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But what happens next?
At the time, analysts concluded that North Korea’s nuclear arms program was not a major security threat.
Concern has been growing that North Korea is testing weapons at an unprecedented pace this year, CNN global correspondent Paula Hancocks said.
What are the neighbors saying?
So now, the world waits to see what the official reactions will be from nations such as China and Russian Federation over the North Korean nuclear test and will they join calls for expanding the sanctions against the beleaguered dictatorship.
He said Obama, who arrived in Washington shortly after midnight Thursday, also consulted with South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in separate phone calls from the presidential aircraft.
“Such provocation will further accelerate its path to self-destruction”, she said.
She later added:”The state of mind of Kim Jong Un, who is not listening to the worldwide society and the surround countries because he wants to maintain his power, should be viewed as uncontrollable”. But this latest incident could add pressure to the relationship.
Hours after Seoul noted unusual seismic activity near the North’s northeastern nuclear test site, Pyongyang said in its state-run media that a test had “finally examined and confirmed the structure and specific features of movement of (a) nuclear warhead that has been standardized to be able to be mounted on strategic ballistic rockets”.
But any unilateral action would be a dead end, making the situation more tense and complicated, she added.
China joined the rest of the worldwide community in approving tough new sanctions on North Korea in March.
The test came on the country’s National Day, which celebrates the founding of the current regime and which is often used as a show of military strength.
On Tuesday, North Korea fired three medium-range Rodong missiles that traveled about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and landed near Japan.
“We must lodge a strong protest”, he said.
Diplomacy has so far failed to stop North Korea’s progress.
“I restated to President Park and Prime Minister Abe the unshakable USA commitment to take necessary steps to defend our allies in the region, including through our deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery to (South Korea) and the commitment to provide extended deterrence, guaranteed by the full spectrum of US defense capabilities”, Obama said.
China has expressed explicit opposition to the DPRK’s nuclear and missile tests and Washington and Seoul’s missile shield deployment plan as well as other moves detrimental to regional peace and stability, and has been earnestly calling for dialogue.
“The Agency continues to closely follow the DPRK (North Korea) nuclear issue”. He says U.N. Security Council resolutions on North Korea must be respected “and we must send this message very strongly”.
“This defiance of the worldwide law norms and the world community’s opinion deserves the strongest condemnation”, a statement from the Russian foreign ministry read.
It’s hard to imagine in North Korea’s case, but it worked for India and Pakistan.
South Korea’s president called Kim Jong-un’s actions “maniacal recklessness”.
Over the past few years, its anxieties have been heightened by attacks on its human rights record in the United Nations and suggestions Kim should be brought before an worldwide tribunal for crimes against humanity. It will raise serious worries in many world capitals that North Korea has moved another step closer to its goal of a nuclear-armed missile that could one day strike the USA mainland.
Japan now bans entry of North Korean nationals and re-entry of senior members of North Korean permanent residents’ association in Japan.
Lawmakers in the South warned that Kim Jong-un is advancing faster to miniaturise nukes for use on missiles.
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“The North Korean leadership knows exactly what they are doing and how far they can push things”.
