North Korea H-bomb test worries Dhaka

South Korea declared Thursday that it would resume cross-border anti-North Korea propaganda broadcasts, a tactic that led the two neighbors to the brink of war when it was used a year ago. Pyongyang is extremely sensitive to any outside criticism of the authoritarian leadership of Kim, the third member of his family to rule.

The South stopped earlier broadcasts after it agreed with Pyongyang in late August on a package of measures aimed at easing animosities were among a variety of punitive measures being considered. South Korea’s Defense Ministry couldn’t confirm the reports.

It is unclear whether Kim, whose birthday is also believed to be Friday, attended the celebrations.

A South Korean soldier stands near the loudspeakers near the border area between South Korea and North Korea in Yeoncheon, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016.

Now North Korea wants those three sides and South Korea to sign a treaty. But many experts discounted these claims because they say the blast wasn’t large enough for a hydrogen bomb, which would yield 20 megatons, versus the 6 kilotons estimated in the recent test.

Before the broadcasts began, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has urged China to end “business as usual” with North Korea.

The United Nations said it would work immediately on significant new measures against Korea.

Despite their old friendship, China opposes the North’s nuclear programme and has supported sweeping United Nations sanctions on North Korea for its weapons development.

Nevertheless, this is the fourth nuclear test by North Korea.

Obama also reaffirmed the “unshakeable U.S. commitment” to the security of South Korea and Japan, according to the statements.

After Mr Kerry’s comments, a U.S. official admitted that “China has an influence on North Korea that nobody else has”.

In the past, the broadcasts typically blared messages about alleged North Korean government mismanagement, human rights conditions, and the superiority of South Korean-style democracy, as well as world news and weather forecasts. “Of course they cheated on that agreement, so we made the wrong move”, he told CNN, calling for a similar approach on sanctions again to restrict the North’s ability to fund its weapons programs.

The upper house resolution demanded that North Korea abandon all its nuclear programs, accept inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency and take steps to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

Abe talked on the phone with U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-hye on January 7 and agreed to work closely with them in responding to North Korea.

They burned an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and cut apart the North Korean flag.