UN working for tougher sanctions on North Korea — UN diplomat
The equipment was acquired 20 years ago from Russia, South Korean television network SBS reported.
North Korea called it a hydrogen bomb and said the test “scientifically proved the power of the smaller H-bomb”, though the United States and others expressed skepticism that Pyongyang actually tested a hydrogen bomb for the first time.
“Being a dedicated State Party of the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone (SEANWFZ) Treaty which aims to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Myanmar is working vigorously towards a world free of nuclear weapons”, said the Foreign Minsitry statement.
Amidst North Korea’s aggressive claims, the House has unanimously approved sanctions on the country. She did not give specifics.
China is the North’s main ally and trade partner but it opposes its bombs, while China’s ties with United States ally South Korea have grown closer in recent years. She stressed the crucial importance of Chinese intervention, saying the “fifth and sixth nuclear tests by the North in the future can not be stopped unless China’s strong will not to tolerate North Korea’s nuclear arms is translated into actual, necessary actions”.
“President Park’s message should be read as showing Seoul’s firmness on resolving the North Korean nuclear issue, even by bringing up the matter that Beijing is uncomfortable with”, Lee Jung-nam, director of the Center for Chinese Studies at Korea University told NK News.
China’s stance has appeared different from those of South Korea, the USA and Japan, which have vowed to craft “strong, comprehensive and meaningful” sanctions and argued the global community can no longer take a “business-as-usual” approach with the North.
As the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have repeatedly warned, “We must abolish nuclear weapons before they abolish us”.
Despite not getting a mention in Obama’s annual address to Congress, North Korea is a “huge priority” for the president, Rhodes said. The nuclear test is its fourth, and drew condemnation from its neighbors and the United States. It means, for example, that if North Korea launches a missile, US and Japanese forces will be looking at the same radar data on their computer screens and sharing information instantly so the threat can be tracked and engaged with greater accuracy.
“He’d probably like nothing more than the president spending a lot of time talking about him at the State of the Union”. If North Korea’s nuclear threat deteriorates China-North Korea relations, it will affect economic exchange between the two countries.
The drone seems to have infiltrated the tensely-guarded border in order to surveil the South’s military posture amid the escalating tensions.
China’s response yesterday was again muted.
To become law, it must also pass the U.S. Senate and be signed by Obama. “During this process, China’s role is important”. By comparing North Korea’s released footage with a successful R-27 launch, it is quite apparent that the KN-11 footage suggests a partially successful launch at best (successful ejection followed by a botched ignition).
Yesterday, South Korean troops fired warning shots at a North Korean drone that crossed the border briefly before returning to its side.
