Nuclear Test: North Korea eyes hydrogen bomb

Because the US president was speaking publicly on the world stage at the U.N., Kim thought he’d resort to “stereo-typed, prepared remarks a little different from what he used to utter in his office on the spur of the moment”.

Responding to the speech, Kim said Trump’s comments amounted to an insult.

In recent months, the North has launched a pair of still-developmental ICBMs it said were capable of striking the continental United States and a pair of intermediate-range missiles that soared over Japanese territory.

The Pentagon said no other U.S. fighters or bomber aircraft have flown so far north of the Demilitarized Zone off North Korea’s coast in the 21st century. In a one-and-only such test in 1962, the USA launched a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile from a submerged submarine. May described efforts by North Korea to amass nuclear weapons as, “outrageous proliferation”.

North Korea seems to be preparing for the most risky or highest-level of the country’s nuclear programme, with the test of a hydrogen bomb.

Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, who is expected to deliver a keynote address to the assembly on Friday, likened Trump’s United Nations speech to the “sound of dogs barking”, Yonhap reported. It would ban exports of liquefied natural gas to the North immediately as well.

How are South Koreans talking about North Korea’s nuclear threats?

Also Thursday, Trump issued an executive order expanding the Treasury Department’s ability to target anyone conducting significant trade in goods, services or technology with North Korea and to ban them from the US financial system. “In case innocent lives of the U.S. are harmed because of this suicide attack, Trump will be held totally responsible”.

“Our analysis shows that it was a natural quake”.

An natural disaster with a magnitude of 3.4 that appears to have been artificial occurred in North Korea on Saturday, a Chinese monitoring agency said. The USGS measured this month’s nuclear test at magnitude 6.3.

According to its website, the first quake – with a 2.6 magnitude occurred at 12:43 a.m. ET.

Speaking at a lecture in Tokyo, Onodera said that the threat from North Korea “cannot be downplayed”. North Korea may simply have no place to conduct an underground test of any larger scale.

Raising concern over the North Korean missile-tests, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had said that negotiations is the only way to find out the solution and urged the ruling Democratic People’s Republic of the Korean Government to not go further in “dangerous direction”.

Kim responded in a statement, calling Trump a “mentally deranged US dotard” and said “a frightened dog barks louder”.

Mnuchin said any sanctions issued under the new executive order signed by Trump on Thursday would be forward-looking and not target past behavior. Textiles are believed to be the North’s biggest source of foreign revenue following rounds of United Nations sanctions under which Beijing cut off purchases of coal, iron ore, seafood and other goods.

China’s official Xinhua News Agency said the country’s seismic service detected a magnitude 3.4 quake in North Korea and saw the likely cause as an explosion.