Seoul resumes propaganda broadcasting on border with North Korea

The US navy is increasingly anxious about tensions on the Korean peninsula after Pyongyang tested a nuclear device, a move that could spur closer military ties between neighbours South Korea and Japan, a senior US officer said on Friday.

United Kingdom urged South Korea to show restraint as propaganda broadcasts against the North began. B-2 and B-52 bombers are capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

The United Nations has already promised to tighten sanctions on Pyongyang.

Seoul also chose to limit the South Koreans who travel to a special industrial park run by the South in Kaesong, North Korea to “essential staff”, officials said.

China recently agreed to work with South Korea and Japan to persuade Pyongyang to resume six-party talks on its nuclear program, but that and other efforts by Beijing also have failed to bear fruit. “The initial analysis that has been conducted…is not consistent with North Korea’s claim of a successful hydrogen bomb test”, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

“Let me make it clear: North Korea has never been left unattended to”.

The vast majority of North Korea’s business dealings are with China, which bought 90 per cent of the isolated country’s exports in 2013, according to data compiled by South Korea’s International Trade Association. The Yonhap report cited an unidentified defence official. The government will allow only South Korean businessmen and workers directly involved in the operation of the factories to cross the Korean border, according to the official.

It is more powerful than basic atomic bomb as it uses fusion to create blast.

Hydrogen bomb is a weapon energised by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes in a chain reaction.

The dictator’s actions were widely condemned around the world and brought calls for more sanctions on North Korea. North Korea is thought to have a handful of rudimentary nuclear bombs and has spent decades trying to flawless a multistage, long-range missile to carry smaller versions of those bombs.

He says, “We want them to abandon any nuclear activities and comply with the worldwide commitments and obligations”. But debate is growing on just how far the North has advanced.

This would constitute the fourth time that North Korea has exploded a nuclear device.

If the global fallout from the test doesn’t prove to be too unmanageable, having it under his belt could allow Kim to go into that meeting with bragging rights that neither of his predecessors had, along with a bolstered position among North Korea’s powerful military and nuclear weapons bureaucracies.