South Korea said on Thursday that it would resume propaganda broadcasts into North Korea, a tactic that prompted Pyongyang to threaten military strikes when it was last employed during a cross-border crisis previous year.
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Kerry rejected a reporter’s suggestion that the Obama administration had neglected the North Korean threat as it focused on curbing Iran’s nuclear program.
The South Korean and the us military authorities have made a decision to maintain their joint reconnaissance posture towards North Korea at the usual level.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he spoke with Wang Yi, foreign minister of China, North Korea’s main ally, about ways of working together on the issue.
As the information spread that North Koreans have successfully tested the “Hydrogen Bomb”, all condemned the move and were of the opinion that this test is done with a destructive mentality.
Seoul has responded to Pyongyang’s nuclear test by restarting propaganda broadcasts across the border.
In 2005, North Korea reached an agreement with the United States, South Korea, China, Japan and Russian Federation to suspend its nuclear programme in return for diplomatic rewards and energy assistance.
But even if the North exploded a boosted fission bomb, its explosive yield, estimated at six kilotons, showed the test was likely a failure, a South Korean defense official said Thursday.
The U.S. State Department confirmed North Korea had conducted a nuclear test but the Obama administration disputed the hydrogen bomb claim.
South Korea’s military resumed propaganda broadcasts against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as planned in retaliation for DPRK’s nuclear test, Yonhap news agency reported on Friday.
South Korean and United States military leaders also discussed the deployment of U.S. “strategic assets” in the wake of the North’s test, Seoul’s defence ministry said. “We have to be bigger than the North Koreans… Boosting our atomic bombs like the ones we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a little bit of a hydrogen isotope called tritium”, said Joe Cirincione.
US Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives could join forces in a rare display of unity to further tighten sanctions on North Korea. Other nations may either have it or are working on it, despite a worldwide effort to contain such proliferation.
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Meanwhile, Nakatani claimed there is a chance that Pyongyang, faced again with global condemnation, might take more “provocative actions” – including a ballistic missile test.
