In a televised speech, President Park Geun-hye said the South was seeking “effective sanctions that will make North Korea feel bone-numbing pain”.
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Park Geun-hye’s comments came as Seoul said North Korea sent leaflets across the border describing her and her government as “mad dogs”, as Cold War-style propaganda warfare between the rivals deepened.
“In that society, I was happy and felt like we had become more militarily powerful”, said Oh, who is now 18 and fled to South Korea in July 2013, five months after the test.
Relations between North and South Korea escalated since Pyongyang’s January 6 hydrogen bomb test. While experts have cast doubt on the test’s authenticity, several states have called for new sanctions against the country.
North Korea may have touted a successful hydrogen bomb test, but a chorus of voices continues to suggest the experiment ended in failure.
Military service in the South is mandatory for men between the ages of 18 and 35.
Park said Seoul and Beijing were discussing a draft U.N. Security Council resolution on North Korea.
Kim was engaged in illicit trade across the China border when she was in North Korea.
Amid calls from South Korea for China to take strict actions against Pyongyang, another report by Yonhap said that a Chinese ambassador to North Korea, Li Jinjun, recommended a stronger relationship for China with North Korea while addressing Chinese students living in Pyongyang.
She stressed China’s past condemnations of North Korea’s military nuclear programme but added: “I am certain that China is very well aware if such a strong will isn’t followed by necessary steps, we will not be able to stop the North’s fifth and sixth nuclear tests and we can not guarantee true peace and stability on the Korean peninsula”.
Tubby tyrant Kim Jong-Un could unleash the secretive country’s latest weapon on the U.S. fter a statement the H-bomb could destroy the country.
China is anxious that a crackdown on North Korea may destabilize the Kim regime and lead to millions of refugees fleeing across China’s border, or that South Korea will absorb its northern neighbor, leaving a well-armed USA ally on its frontier.
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted almost unanimously yesterday to pass legislation to broaden sanctions on the North. “It is the best partner who holds hands whenever the other party is having a hard time”. “They know how to build missiles that work, they know how to build submarines that work, and Kim Jong Un seems particularly enthusiastic about both”. He said he does not expect Obama to change the current containment policy of “strategic patience”, nor does he expect any of the major presidential candidates to make North Korea a major issue in the campaign. But in a telephone conversation with his South Korean counterpart last Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made it clear that Beijing supports dialogue to resolve the nuclear standoff.
