On Friday, North Korea was reported to have increased the number of troops at some forward-deployed units as South Korea readied to restart the broadcasts.
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China’s cautious approach to its isolated and unpredictable totalitarian neighbor has not borne fruit, however, and now Washington is pushing for stronger worldwide action.
The UN Security Council also held an emergency session and pledged to swiftly pursue new sanctions against North Korea, saying the test was a clear violation of previous UN resolutions.
“A huge explosion occurred, and that should make all countries concerned”, Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin, commander of the U.S. seventh fleet, told reporters aboard the aircraft carrier the USS Ronald Reagan south of Tokyo.
US Secretary of State John Kerry rebuked China over its appeasement of North Korea, which rocked the global community by conducting a nuclear test Wednesday.
South Korea, which has grown increasingly close to China in recent years, says its foreign minister will speak with his Chinese counterpart later on Friday.
In 2013, North Korea threatened a nuclear strike on the United States after Washington sent a pair of nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers on a sortie over South Korea in a show of force.
Kerry said he and Wang agreed to work closely to determine what measures could be taken given increasing concerns about the nuclear test. In the past, similar broadcasts have angered North Korea.
It is in response to Pyongyang’s claim to have detonated a hydrogen bomb.
In July 2014, Japan lifted some of its unilateral sanctions against North Korea after Pyongyang agreed to reopen an investigation into what happened to Japanese living there – including those abducted by Pyongyang’s agents.
The United States as well as Japan and South Korea have become skeptical about North Korea’s announcement it detonated a hydrogen bomb after analyzing data detected following the underground blast. The US is highly unlikely to restore the tactical nuclear missiles it removed from South Korea in 1991, experts said.
Cheese addict Kim’s neighbours think the bomb tested on January 6 was not a monster Hydrogen one at all, instead a watered down device akin to those tried out before.
But Kerry did not elaborate further on what the US government wants China to do next.
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Donald Trump, the front-runner for the GOP nomination, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday that “China should solve that problem, and we should put pressure on China to solve the problem”.
