One option being considered is reinstating some of the sanctions that were lifted in July 2014 in line with Pyongyang’s resumption of its investigation into Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades earlier.
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North Korea’s declaration that it had tested a hydrogen bomb for the first ti…
North Korea did not immediately respond to Cho’s announcement.
Fusion is the main principle behind the hydrogen bomb, which can be hundreds of times more powerful than atomic bombs that use fission.
North Koreans are prohibited from listening to K-pop.
A day after North Korea said it tested a hydrogen bomb, South Korea said Thursday that it would resume propaganda broadcasts at the countries’ border that infuriated the North last summer.
The anti-Pyongyang propaganda was broadcast from noon across the border toward North Korea at 11 locations in frontline areas through a set of large loudspeakers, Xinhua reported. He said that China’s approach to North Korea had failed. Pyongyang is extremely sensitive to any outside criticism of the authoritarian leadership of Kim, the third member of his family to rule.
Leader of the Democratic minority, Nancy Pelosi of California, promised Thursday there will be strong bipartisan support for the legislation tabled by the top Republican and Democrat lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee that would target access to hard currency and other goods and step up inspections of North Korean cargo.
The broadcasts will reportedly include messages against North Korea regime as well as songs, weather forecast and news. Seoul agreed to stop them previous year in a deal with the North to resolve particularly high tensions after a border skirmish.
So far no radiation has been detected by China, Japan or South Korea, it could take many more days to collect, maybe weeks to analyze with no guarantee of success. South Korean President Park Geun-hye orders her military to bolster its combined defense posture with US forces.
Chinese officials are also shifting the blame to Obama, condemning North Korea’s nuclear provocations and telling CNN they believe the USA could be exerting more influence on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un if it wanted to, since Kim has long sought direct communication with Washington. Officials refused to elaborate, but the assets likely are B-52 bombers, F-22 stealth fighters and nuclear-powered submarines.
– The U.N. Security Council holds an emergency meeting and pledges to swiftly pursue new sanctions against North Korea.
There are fewer South Koreans at the park than usual, because South Korea began limiting entry to the area after the North announced a nuclear test on Wednesday.
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But he also said Pyongyang could have reduced the scale of the explosion on goal because Wednesday’s event was only a test. The government will allow only South Korean businessmen and workers directly involved in the operation of the factories to cross the Korean border, according to the official. It is also a grave contravention of the worldwide norm against nuclear testing.
