The KCNA article also stated the reason Pyongyang conducted its most recent nuclear test was because the regime could no longer tolerate USA and South Korea talks of a “collapse” or “leadership removal”. “If they carry out an additional test, we believe that preparations are already in place for a side tunnel in Tunnel No. 2 or for Tunnel No. 3”, Moon added.
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Last week, the Security Council held urgent consultations to discuss the North’s nuclear test.
Virtually all programmes seen by North Korean viewers are either a celebration of the rule of the Kim family, or attacks on South Korea and the United States, and this is little different.
“I smacked my head on the bathroom floor”, a bloodied and bandaged President Barack Obama says, “as I was so shocked by North Korea’s hydrogen bomb detonation!”
Yet, those controversial talks at least had as their agreed objective the demise of the Iranian nuclear-weapons program.
China and Pakistan are “passive enablers” of the North Korean nuclear program and may face some secondary sanctions for violating United Nations approved sanction, say US -based experts, with China being a bigger issue. During a plenary session of the National Assembly’s National Defense Committee immediately after North Korea’s fifth nuclear test on Sep. Showing some separation from the administration, she said her new policy would include “an urgent effort to convince the neighbors, most particularly China, that this is not just a US issue”, but theirs as well. (Korean with Spanish translation) “Since we are facing the world’s largest nuclear state, only nuclear weapons will protect us”. China plays a critical role, too, and must meaningfully increase pressure on North Korea – and we must make sure they do.
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They also want to limit the number of North Koreans allowed to work overseas. They have total control, because without China they wouldn’t be able to eat. The bombers were then joined by South Korean F-15s and US F-16s for a low-level flight in the vicinity of Osan, South Korea.The B-1 Lancer is a four-engine supersonic variable-sweep wing, jet-powered heavy supersonic strategic bomber, which can cruise at a speed of Mach 2. The problem with such a policy, he adds, is that if time is not on the U.S. side the policy options move to the extremes, either acquiescence or use force to achieve the objective of denuclearization and he thinks we might be headed in that direction.
