North Korea promises more ‘gift packages’ for US

Moon and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on seeking the touched United Nations sanctions after the rogue state conducted its sixth nuclear test on Sunday, which they claimed was a thermonuclear weapon capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.

North Korea on Sunday had claimed it had successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb – sixth nuclear test carried out by the country – which possibly triggered a 6.3-magnitude artificial quake. She urged the 15-member Security Council to impose the “strongest possible” sanctions to deter him and shut down his trading partners.

He said: “I don’t think time is on our side here at all”.

USA stocks have plummeted – with the S & P 500 experiencing its biggest single-day loss in three weeks.

Speaking after the meeting Wednesday with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the Russian port city of Vladivostok, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for talks with North Korea, saying sanctions are not a solution to the country’s nuclear and missile development.

He said North Korea’s ambassador to Britain had been summoned to the Foreign Office “to receive a formal protest”.

North Korea’s minister of external economic relations, who is at the forum, said his country will “respond to barbaric attempts to exert pressure by the U.S. by our strong countermeasures”, according to the Russian state-run news agency Tass. Also, the final parts of a controversial US-built missile defense system arrived at a base in Seongju, south of Seoul, greeted by throngs of protesters.

The White House stressed the USA and Chinese leaders’ joint commitment to ridding the Korean Peninsula of nuclear weapons.

He told reporters at United Nations headquarters in NY on Tuesday that North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests threaten regional and worldwide stability.

“President Trump and President Xi committed to strengthen coordination and take further action with the goal of achieving the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula”, the statement went on to say.

The European Union’s foreign policy chief, also speaking in Tallinn, says the world should not “enter this spiral of a military confrontation that could be extremely risky not only for the region but for the entire world”. The other half is dialogue and negotiation.

China accounted for 92 percent of North Korea’s trade in 2016, according to South Korea.

Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang clarified later on Thursday that China would support the consensus of the UN Security Council.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has urged Russian Federation to collaborate against the policies pursued by the DPRK and voiced the hope joint steps on the part of Japan and Russian Federation would help scale down the current tensions on the Korean Peninsula, APA reports quoting TASS.

But there is a division of opinion when it comes to the way Donald Trump is handling North Korea.

Geng told reporters that China had complained to the USA and South Korea and urged them to “take seriously the security concerns and interests of China and other regional countries”.

Russia, China, North Korea and even South Korea have agreed to try this approach. It will lead to nothing, because what is happening now, of course, is a provocation from North Korea.

Mr Turnbull said if dictator Kim Jong-un carried out his threat and attacked the United States or one of its allies “there would be an overwhelming and massive military response” from America.

Such moves would hit North Korea and its leader hard, especially so soon after the council voted unanimously on August 5 on sanctions that would cut billion from the North’s export revenue.

Trump said Washington has been deeply concerned over the ongoing situation on the Korean Peninsula, and attaches importance to China’s essential role in resolving the issue.