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BEIJING, China (AFP) — China said on Monday it had lodged an official protest with its ally North Korea following Pyongyang’s largest-ever nuclear weapons test. The massive explosion, which Pyongyang claimed was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb, has put the region on edge and raised questions about how Beijing will respond to its neighbor’s latest provocation. China “launched stern representations with the person in charge of the DPRK embassy in China”, foreign ministry spokesman Geng […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – South Korea and the United States will deploy more anti-missile defenses in response to Sunday’s nuclear test by North Korea, Seoul’s defense ministry said Monday. The Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system already installed in the South has infuriated China, but the ministry said in a statement that the “Four remaining launchers will soon be temporarily deployed through consultations between South Korea and the US to counter growing nuclear and […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) – Japan and China said Monday they had not yet detected any atmospheric radiation from North Korea’s nuclear test, amid fears of a leak from a “cave in” during the underground blast. Japan’s top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters there was “nothing special detected from monitoring posts across the country,” nor from air samples taken by the Air Self-Defense Force after Sunday’s blast. China’s environment ministry said Monday that radiation levels […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – North Korea’s nuclear test on Sunday had an estimated strength of 50 kilotons, defense ministry officials told a parliamentary briefing on Monday. That would make it five times the size of the North’s previous test in September last year, and more than three times bigger than the US device that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. (Agence France-Presse)
by Brian Knowlton with Sebastien Berger in Seoul Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States warned it could launch a “massive military response” to any threats from North Korea following Pyongyang’s provocative detonation of what it claimed was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis spoke out on Sunday after North Korea carried out an unexpectedly strong nuclear test, more powerful than the bomb that levelled Hiroshima in 1945. […]
HONG KONG, CHINA (AFP) — Asian stocks tumbled with the South Korean won Monday while the safe haven yen rallied on news that North Korea had tested what it claimed was a miniaturized hydrogen bomb, ramping up tensions on the peninsula. Less than a week after it rattled global markets by firing a rocket over Japan, Pyongyang on Sunday conducted its sixth nuclear test, sparking further condemnation and a warning from defence secretary Jim […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s military launched a volley of ballistic missiles simulating an attack on the North’s nuclear test site Monday, Seoul said, in an exercise responding to a test of what Pyongyang says was a hydrogen bomb. Pictures showed South Korean short-range Hyunmoo ballistic missiles roaring into the sky in the pale light of dawn from a launch site on the country’s east coast. Authorities released video showing South Korean […]
North Koreans cheered as the news of the hydrogen bomb test by their leader was declared a success over state television. A video from North Korea showed people watching the news and cheering after the announcement of the successful H-bomb test. “I am really happy to hear the news of the successful test of a hydrogen bomb for ICBM. I have once again realized that, with the respected Supreme Leader in high esteem, we will […]
https://youtu.be/PKXPrgCXt8A World leaders, including United States President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, condemned the latest nuclear test conducted by North Korea on Sunday (Sept. 3), saying this action was “unacceptable” and should be punished. US President Donald Trump declared Sunday that “appeasement with North Korea” will not work, after Pyongyang claimed it had successfully tested a missile-ready hydrogen bomb. “North Korea has conducted a major nuclear test,” Trump said. “Their words and […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany, Italy and France on Sunday urged tougher European Union sanctions against North Korea, after Pyongyang “reached a new dimension of provocation” with its latest nuclear test. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed during a phone call “that North Korea has trampled on international law and that the international community must therefore react with determination against this new escalation,” the chancellery said in a statement. Both leaders […]
by Sebastien Berger Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said it detonated a hydrogen bomb designed for a long-range missile on Sunday and called its sixth and most powerful nuclear test a “perfect success,” sparking world condemnation and promises of tougher United States sanctions. Pyongyang residents threw their arms aloft in triumph as a jubilant television newsreader hailed the “unprecedentedly large” blast. It “marked a very significant occasion in attaining the final goal of […]
