A South Korean military source said the country would attack North Korea in the case of a nuclear threat.
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International Business Times reported the country’s foreign ministry said U.S. President Barack Obama was “reckless” for calling the tests “provocative”.
But Pyongyang openly laughed at the idea.
“We will continue to take measures for increasing the nuclear force of the country in quality and quantity to ensure genuine peace from the United States increasing threat of a nuclear war”, it added.
THE UN Security Council on Friday condemned the latest nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), saying it is a clear violation of Security Council resolutions.
With Pyongyang repeatedly insisting it will continue to develop nuclear weapons while also issuing specific threats against South Korea and the United States, Seoul is raising its defense posture.
A source told the South Korean news agency that every part of the DPRK capital “will be completely destroyed by ballistic missiles and high-explosive shells”.
The South’s Defence Ministry could not immediately confirm the report, but the military has vowed to take strong actions to retaliate in the event of an attack by the North.
The fifth nuclear test on Friday, according to Korean media: “carried out a nuclear explosion test for the judgment of the power of a nuclear warhead”.
New Zealand holds this month’s presidency of the Security Council.
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 United States mainland.
Pyongyang has also carried out a string of ballistic missile tests this year in defiance of United Nations sanctions, which have all been condemned by the Security Council.
Two months ago, USA -based 38 North, a North Korea monitoring project, said satellite images showed a high level of activity at North Korea’s nuclear test site, called Punggye-ri.
The government in Seoul will take “all diplomatic and military efforts to counter North Korea’s continued provocation”, senior presidential secretary for foreign affairs Kim Kyou-Hyun told reporters Sunday.
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“This is in clear violation of numerous UN Security Council resolutions and in complete disregard of the repeated demands of the global community”, the agency Chief Yukiya Amano remarked.
