Myanmar urges end to North Korea’s ‘hydrogen bomb’ tests

Park on Wednesday urged North Korea’s only major ally, China, to help punish Pyongyang for its nuclear test with what she called “the strongest” possible worldwide sanctions that could force change in the North.

Diplomats at a U.N. Security Council emergency session pledged to swiftly pursue new sanctions.

“The probability that North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb is minimal”, Deputy Head of the Center for Euro-Atlantic and Defense Studies of the Russian Institute of Strategic Research Vladimir Novikov said at a roundtable discussion titled: “The North Korean Hydrogen Trace: Trying the Patience of the International Community”, which was held on Thursday. The department said any public statement about detained Americans can affect efforts to have them freed, NBC News reports.

CNN’s interview with Kim Dong-chul, who claims he was arrested for espionage, comes days after North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test, which angered China and the United States.

The situations in the North Korean border region remain unchanged; the residents are utterly indifferent to the success of its nuclear test. The regime propagated justifications for possessing nuclear weapons and its success on the 4 nuclear test that it defends peace and protects from the United States and its other enemies.

North Korea will read the fly-over of a bomber capable of delivering nuclear weapons – seen by an Associated Press photographer at Osan Air Base near Seoul – as a threat.

The country is irked by joint military maneuvers by South Korea and the USA, and views them as direct threats against its security. “This is in everyone’s interests and is everyone’s responsibility, including China and South Korea”, he said.

In a letter to the organizer from its United Nations mission in Geneva, North Korea said that it had hoped to have the opportunity to demonstrate its economic performance and promote economic cooperation. This campaign, a form of psychological warfare, has been detested strongly by North Korea.

Despite having met Chinese President Xi Jinping six times in the past three years to strengthen bilateral relations, Ms Park has been unable to get him on the phone since the nuclear test, local media reported. The Koreas are technically still in a state of war since the 1950-53 conflict, and all South Korean males between the ages of 18-35 must undergo compulsory national service.

KN-11 is the designation for a new ballistic missile being developed on North Korea’s east coast, near the town of Sinpo. Given China’s very close ties with North Korea, will China try to reach out or has it reached a point where no one knows what can be predicted from the North anymore?