U.N. Security Council Resolution 2270, which was passed in March after the North’s fourth nuclear test, provided a loophole allowing imports of North Korean coal if such transactions are exclusively for the North’s “livelihood” and will not yield revenue for its nuclear, ballistic missile or other restricted programs.
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UNITED NATIONS-The Security Council strongly condemned North Korea’s nuclear test on Friday, saying it would immediately begin consultations on further “appropriate measures”.
Members of the UN Security Council held emergency talks on Friday to discuss how to respond to North Korea’s nuke test which led to a massive 5.3 magnitude quake.
He urged the U.S.to deal with North Korea from a position of strength, not desperation, to treat Kim as a risky man, not a insane kid, even if that is exactly what Kim might want.
North Korea has been subject to sanctions since 2006 but the impoverished country has, nevertheless, continued to develop its nuclear programme.
“As Commander in Chief, I have a responsibility to safeguard the American people and ensure that the United States is leading the worldwide community in responding to this threat and North Korea’s other provocations with commensurate resolve and condemnation”, Obama said.
But if anything unpredictable happens with North Korea, “the impact with be far, far greater than those conflicts in Syria and elsewhere because we are now talking about nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and an unpredictable regime”, Ban said.
In a statement Friday, Obama condemned the North’s test and said it “follows an unprecedented campaign of ballistic missile launches, which North Korea claims are meant to serve as delivery vehicles meant to target the United States and our allies”.
The 5.0 magnitude seismic event Friday is the largest of the four past quakes associated with North Korean nuclear tests, according to South Korea’s weather agency.
“The standardization of the nuclear warhead will enable [North Korea] to produce at will and as many as it wants a variety of smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear warheads of higher strike power”, the statement said. “The patience of the global community has come to the limit”, she said.
Clinton said she will protect allies and treaty partners in the region including equipping them with missile defense systems.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye called the latest detonation an act of “fanatic recklessness” on the part of the government of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who has overseen three nuclear tests since he took power in late 2011.
The hermit state’s media was quick to confirm a nuclear test had been performed, admitting the country now has the capacity to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile.
The North said its latest test was in response to “US hostility”, while hailing its feat that it was now capable of mounting “nuclear warheads” on ballistic rockets.
Japan is calling for new sanctions, but China, Pyongyang’s ally, has repeatedly stressed the need to avoid an escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said North Korea must be given a very strong message about complying with the resolutions.
Indian Security analyst C. Uday Bhaskar said the choice of the day for the test was not accidental as the North Korean regime was founded on September 9, 1948.
The RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded USA think tank, said in a 2010 report that the detonation of a 10-kilton nuclear weapon in the South Korean capital of Seoul could cause more than 200,000 deaths and would easily overwhelm doctors and beds in hospitals throughout the country.
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“They may be reckless but they are not completely insane”, Jeung said. If it doesn’t, Trump said, “We should make trade very hard with China”.
