Kerry says China’s approach to N. Korea has failed, urges tougher measures

A visitor looks at a display illustrating the damage a 1MT class nuclear weapon would cause if detonated in Seoul, at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.

As the propaganda broadcasts intensifies, North Korea has deployed troops while South Korea has raised its military readiness at locations near the loudspeakers.

Shortly after this slate of digital assaults, the US and South Korea pledged in May 2015 to strengthen cybersecurity coordination in an effort to counteract North Korea’s cyber efforts.

South Korean defence minister Han Min-koo at a press conference in Seoul.

Sound from the speakers could be heard 10 kilometres into North Korea during the day. South Korea’s Defense Ministry couldn’t confirm the reports.

In response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test, South Korea on Thursday announced plans to resume cross-border propaganda broadcasts that Pyongyang considers an act of war.

South Korea, which has grown increasingly close to China in recent years, said its foreign minister would speak with his Chinese counterpart later on Friday.

According to South Korea’s Defense Ministry, the broadcasts can reach the intended target about 20 kilometers away during the night.

“No wonder (the South Korean government has started loudspeaker broadcasts)”.

At the time, North Korea gave the south a 48-hour ultimatum end the propaganda or face “strong military action”.

The resumption came in retaliation for North Korea’s first successful hydrogen bomb test on Wednesday.

North Korea claimed on Wednesday to have carried out an underground test detonation of an H-bomb.

China has hosted six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear ambitions since the multilateral framework was launched in 2003. Washington sent a pair of nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers over South Korea in a show of force after North Korea last tested a nuclear device in 2013.

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

Kerry and Wang agreed their countries would work closely in the UN Security Council, in which members are expected to discuss a fresh sanctions resolution against North Korea.

“It is hard to assume that it conducted a conventional hydrogen bomb test, considering the size of its seismic impact”, Abe said during a session of the Lower House Budget Committee. As the information spread that North Koreans have successfully tested the “Hydrogen Bomb”, all condemned the move and were of the opinion that this test is done with a destructive mentality.

North Korean defectors have said the broadcasts had left a lasting impression that there were songs without an ideological message, that spoke only of love.