US Congressmen see forcing China to cut ties with North Korea would be a way to crack down on them after the test, and suggested sanctioning Chinese banks that do business with North Korea.
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The test also alarmed Japan.
US President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart Park Geun-Hye held a 20-minute phone conversation this morning, Ms Park’s presidential office said in a statement.
South Korea is preparing to launch the same anti-North propaganda campaign that brought the two to the brink of war past year.
South Korean and USA military leaders also discussed the deployment of US “strategic assets” in the wake of the North’s test, Seoul’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
Kerry said he spoke with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi earlier on Thursday about various options for responding to North Korea’s fourth nuclear test.
In light of Pyongyang’s alleged nuclear test on Wednesday, the North Korea has presumably over-stepped the mark on the South’s scale of “abnormality”. The loudspeakers – at 11 locations along the border – blast Korean pop, news and weather reports and criticisms of the North over the border.
John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, has urged China to get tough with North Korea after Pyongyang reportedly conducted a nuclear test earlier this week. Just how big a threat North Korea’s nuclear program poses is a mystery. It was developed the USA in 1958.
Asked about a suggestion from U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump that China could do more to rein in North Korea, Hua said: “What constructive efforts have they made?”
“It is essential, as ever, that the worldwide community is united in its approach and will work on such measures in a new Security Council resolution”, he added. Diplomats said that could mean an expansion of sanctions, although major powers might baulk at an all-out economic offensive.
“Let me make it clear: North Korea has never been left unattended to”.
– South Korea decides to retaliate over the nuke test by restarting from Friday anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts along its border with the North for the first time in almost five months. He said that China’s approach to North Korea had failed.
Hydrogen bomb is a weapon energised by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes in a chain reaction.
The Times reported it could take weeks before the USA can determine more specific details of the test.
The U.S.is doubtful that the test was actually a hydrogen bomb.
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Kim Jong-un’s secretive state said it successfully tested a miniaturised hydrogen bomb, a move that would be a significant advancement of its nuclear armoury, but experts have cast doubt on the claims.
