The U.N. Security Council is strongly condemning North Korea’s l.
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South Korea, Japan and the US requested the United Nations Security Council launch discussions on the North right after the communist nation conducted the nuclear detonation on its founding anniversary, just eight months after its fourth test in January.
The warning of additional test is based on three tunnels excavated at Punggye-ri near which all of its underground nuclear tests were conducted.
The test showed North Korea’s nuclear capability was expanding fast and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was unwilling to alter course, South Korea said on Saturday.
Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo also said Friday that “North Korea has been preparing a nuclear test and given the related developments, I think that it can do another nuclear test soon”.
South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported that bad weather had delayed a planned US military B-1B bomber flight to the Korean peninsula that had been scheduled for Monday.
Seoul, Washington and their allies vowed to apply more pressure and sanctions after the test, the second this year.
The flight was scheduled to take place on Monday, but got delayed due to bad weather.
Citing a Chinese saying that “whoever started the trouble should end it”, Hua said the U.S. South Korea’s military said that it was about 10 kilotonnes, while other measurements from neighboring countries said it was 20 kilotonnes or more.
The UN Security Council denounced North Korea’s decision to carry out the test and said it would begin work immediately on a resolution. It previously called Park a “prostitute”.
The US said that any provocations from the North would come with “serious consequences”.
South Korea’s defence ministry said there was no change in its policy barring nuclear weapons. Regional disarmament-for-aid talks on the North’s nuclear ambitions have not been held since late 2008.
As for the sanctions that the North will be facing, the U.S. is still considering the path it will take, barring the ones that the UN Security Council, Japan, and South Korea will be enforcing.
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“Nepal wishes to see peace and stability on the Korean peninsula”. The crux of the issue lay with the United States, not China, she added.
