‘This is in everyone’s interests and is everyone’s responsibility, including China and South Korea, ‘ he said.
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Meanwhile, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for an expansion of the size and power of his isolated country’s nuclear arsenal, state media reported on Wednesday. North Korean propagandists used rudimentary editing techniques to crop and flip old video footage of an earlier SLBM test and Scud missile launch, the CNS study showed.
North Korea has been suspected of sending over basic surveillance drones before, but any incursion in the present climate would naturally be taken seriously.
President Park mentioned the nuclear experiment of North Korea and said, “It is a serious threat for the survival and future of this country”.
South Korea’s president has also urged North Korea’s only major ally, China, to help punish Pyongyang’s recent nuclear test with the strongest possible worldwide sanctions.
Park vowed Wednesday to continue loudspeaker broadcasts across the Demilitarized Zone that have angered the North, apparently rejecting Britain’s call to halt the barrage of propaganda and pop music to avoid further escalating the latest crisis on the peninsula.
As a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, Russia’s role will be critical in adopting a new sanctions resolution punishing the North for its fourth nuclear test.
In an annual press conference, Ms Park said the global community’s response “must differ from the past”, without giving details, and that China’s help was crucial.
“We strongly urge the DPRK (North Korea) side to remain committed to its denuclearization commitment, and stop taking any actions that would make the situation worse”, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, said.
“The best partners are those who will hold your hand in hard times”. But there have been signs that Beijing is getting increasingly frustrated at the North’s repeated provocations. She also said China should realize it can not keep North Korea from conducting “a fifth or sixth nuclear test” until China’s commitment translates into action. But in a telephone conversation with his South Korean counterpart Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made it clear that Beijing supports dialogue to resolve the nuclear standoff.
“This is the surest and most effective mean of psychological warfare against North Korea” now, Park said in a nationally televised address.
China may be concerned about a massive flow of refugees from North Korea across its own border and to South Korea if the North Korean government, led by Kim Jong Un, were toppled.
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“Truth is the most important weapon against a totalitarian regime”, she said. Her military announced it has found hundreds of anti-Seoul leaflets near the western portion of the Koreas’ border, which the defence ministry believes were floated over by the North’s military.
