SKorea wants North to feel pain over nuclear test claim

South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday urged China to help ensure that North Korea “feels pain” over its recent nuclear test, as the worldwide community looks to Beijing to exert its significant influence over Pyongyang.

Seoul’s nuclear negotiator Hwang Joon-Kook and his US and Japanese counterparts – Sung Kim and Kimihiro Ishikane – held a trilateral meeting in a Seoul hotel to coordinate their response to Pyongyang’s self-proclaimed hydrogen bomb test last week.

Seoul media says South Korea has fired warning shots after North Korean drone seen across border. South Korean experts believe that Russian Federation is going to play a key role in imposing fresh sanctions against the North in the United Nations Security Council, TASS News Agency reports.

Last week, US Secretary of State John Kerry said he had told his Chinese counterpart that China’s approach to North Korea had not succeeded.

North Korea claims it’s ready to detonate its H-bomb capable of wiping out the whole of the United States “all at once”.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry said on Wednesday that Beijing will work with all interested parties to resolve the issue through dialogue in order to achieve “durable peace” in the region.

He added: “An initial operational capability of a North Korean ballistic-missile submarine is not expected before 2020”.

The North, however, claimed it did carry out a hydrogen bomb test which had “no adverse impacts on the environmental situation”.

Shortly before Obama’s speech, the House voted to enhance sanctions against North Korea.

Since Friday, South Korea has been blasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda from huge speakers along the border, and the North is using speakers of its own in an attempt to keep its soldiers from hearing the South Korean messages.

“I think it was the same for people around me who were also too busy worrying about their next meal to care about whether or not there had been a nuclear test”, she said.

Cutting off North Korea’s access to cash also makes it hard for Pyongyang to pay its army and police forces, said Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

According to the Korea International Trade Association (KITA), the amount of exports and imports between North Korea and China has declined for the second year in a row.

The important point is how active China, North Korea’s closest ally, will be in making this resolution as effective as possible.

For these reasons, the world might consider paying more substantive attention to North Korea on a continual basis.

Similar North Korea-sent propaganda leaflets were discovered on a South Korea border island between late 2013 and early 2014.

There has been widespread speculation that the North’s current provocations are aimed at bolstering leader Kim Young Un’s efforts to consolidate power four years after he took over following the death of his father and to rally public support for him in the impoverished country.

On the South Korean side of its 151-mile border with North Korea, banks of loudspeakers are back on, blaring propaganda.