United Nations "Hydrogen Bomb" Additional Sanctions on North Korea After The Test Project

United Nations "Hydrogen Bomb" Additional Sanctions on North Korea After The Test Project

UN Security Council meets to discuss the world's response also urged leaders to "strong action" to be taken against Pyongyang after the experiment H- bomb that caused the earthquake measuring 5.1 - follow live updates

17:40
Pentagon: "It must be provocations consequences"

Ashton Carter, US Secretary of Defense, and the North Korean missile test today discussed with his South Korean counterpart.

Said Peter Cook, a Pentagon spokesman, Trustees agreed that if it is proved that the nuclear test, North Korea has engaged in a "provocation is unacceptable and irresponsible."

"Agreed Carter and Han said North Korean provocations must have consequences," he said.


5:03 p.m.

"It is difficult, time-consuming" task to check if the hydrogen bomb test

Hunt is now on between experts in the nuclear field to track airborne radioactive particles that could provide crucial evidence about whether North Korea was really tested the hydrogen bomb.

According to Reuters, the earthquake site, near the well-known North Korean nuclear tests, seismic and characteristics which led experts to conclude quickly that North Korea may have conducted a fourth nuclear test site. Then Pyongyang announced that it had done so.

But it is the presence of radioactive particles which should help investigators decide whether North Korea poses a threat as was feared.

Until the analysis of these particles will be very difficult to confirm either way, according to investigators.


16:08

"It seems like a provocation"

The head of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan on Wednesday reported nuclear bomb test North Korea is apparently a "provocation," according to Reuters.

But he added that it was premature to pay for the response of the United States even knew the facts of the incident.

"I think this means that we have to sharpen response on well with our allies on this rogue regime," he said Ryan told reporters at a news conference after a meeting of the Republican party.

"We do not know that after the facts," he said, adding: "This looks like a provocation"




 15:37

Ban Ki-moon: bomb test "very worrying".

Mr. Ban, who eased in a second term earlier this month with no opposition, and did not increase transparency in hiring practices, found the Joint Inspection Unit report Photo: REUTERS



 Ahead of a meeting with the UN Security Council, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the nuclear test, North Korea.

"Destabilize largely on regional security," and said he was "deeply concerned" and.


15:32

The United Nations is considering the imposition of further sanctions on North Korea

The UN Security Council is considering imposing further sanctions on North Korea after its nuclear test, and assured the British ambassador.

"We will work with others on a decision on further sanctions," said Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, according to AFP.

Diplomats said the United States, Japan and other members of the Council's 15 members are working on a draft text that would strongly condemn what it called Pyongyang's test of the hydrogen bomb.

"We have no information on the type of device test," said Rycroft, but added: "any nuclear test constitutes a clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions."


14:35 p.m.

North Korea believes that it can survive a nuclear counter-strike by hiding in the tunnels'

Mr. Everard added that North Korea may think it can survive out nuclear war also has a complex network of defensive tunnels:




oreover, Is North Korea has an elaborate system of defensive tunnels - such as Tora Bora in Afghanistan, but on a much broader scale. If the system thinks it can fall into these tunnels and survive to fight a nuclear strike then it will be less reluctant to use their own nuclear weapons.



Kim Jong-un visited the recently renovated Phyongchon revolutionary site in the center of Pyongyang. The museum regularly appear in official revolutionary history documentaries and the DPRK? S military industrial complex.




14:28

"It is dangerous to assume that North Korea will never use nuclear weapons."

John Everard, Britain's former ambassador to North Korea, and writes for the Telegraph newspaper today about the dangers of complacency about Kim Jong-un.



North Korea's test on January 6 really the hydrogen bomb? If it was, it would be able to make such a bomb on the target?

Even if you have the technical capacity they have no intention - or that North Korea's leaders assess that a nuclear attack would invite nuclear retaliation devastating, and until the end of their system (and possibly from North Korea as a state)?

It is dangerous to assume that North Korea really will not use nuclear weapons. Although we might think that this means the end of the system is not clear whether the system thinks so. In a strange, closed world of North Korea, it is quite possible that the leadership had convinced himself that foreign cowardly would not dare to counter-attack if the use of a nuclear bomb.


North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects General machinery factory January 18 in South Pyongan Province




14:23 p.m.

All smiles in North Korea, the world awaits the reaction of the Security Council of the United Nations

Sligthtly this strange picture, snapped on the Korean border, north Korean troops and one looking julibant to some extent appears. The mood in Pyongyang - was one of pure celebration today - as quoted to us by the state propoganda machine of course.

Smiling Korean soldier north near the town of Sinuiju, North Korea, as seen from the Chinese border city of Dandong antithesis,

North Korean people celebrate the success of the first hydrogen bomb test in Pyongyang.




14:06

Nuclear tests "strong internal propoganda tool"

Nuclear tests Kim Jong-un is the key to assert himself to the world as the legitimate leader of North Korea - but also a powerful tool at the local level.

That's according to an expert in North Korean affairs at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

"The North Korean government generally look weak external nuclear tests, but like this enhance the image of a strong state locally," Christopher Green told Reuters.

14:06
Trump: If China does not solve North Korea, we have to make trade "difficult" for them

He said, speaking to Fox News Trump: "China has full control ... they have full control of North Korea, and China should solve this problem and if the problem is not solved, we should make trade very difficult for China."

He adds that Kim Jong-un is "crazy", and that "no one ever speaks to God, but Dennis Rodman."




13:48
Donald Trump: China should sort North Korea

And candidate for the US presidency speaking on Fox News about the day's events in North Korea.

He said it was up to China to "solve the problem" of North Korea, pointing out that Beijing has failed to maintain the ally of choice.


12:57

Drawing: of carrying nuclear weapons in the world?

If North Korea, as they claim, has tested the hydrogen bomb, then joined an exclusive club instead of countries at the forefront of nuclear weapons technology.

Take a look at the graphic below Daily Telegraph useful to find out where they stand now in relation to other nuclear powers.

12:54

North Korea did not row with China to start a girl band hand chosen by Kim Jong-un?

It will be seen nuclear test North Korea as anything less than insolence on the part of Beijing, who today joined the chorus of international condemnation.

The move suggests a rift in relations between Kim Jong-un and strongest ally in the East - which is strange considering how well the two countries appeared to be getting recently.

As previously reported, Kim was photographed beaming with pride when he met a senior Chinese official last October.

 But "slap in the face" today that China may have been predicted by an incident in December, when North Korea canceled a girl band Moranbong sudennly tour in China and left the country abruptly.

He has been chosen by a group of the same system leader, is known to run songs that exhult charming smile and "warm heart".

It remains unclear why the band abruptly canceled show in Beijing - it's just cited "reason" in an ad for her Facebook page. But it was speculated Kim pulled a group of China as a means to express his annoyance with Beijing.


12:39

Hydrogen bomb test "slap in the face of China."

Mike Chinoy, author of Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean nuclear crisis, has appeared on CNN.



Beijing has got to be angry at all.

There was a period when he was really angry with the Chinese and Koreans, but a few months ago there were signs of a clear shift in the Chinese approach. They sent a senior official, Liu Yunshan, a large military parade in October, standing next to Kim Jong-un. It was all smiles.

12:19

NATO urges North Korea to abandon its nuclear program

Chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Jens Stoltenberg wants North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons setup - but the nuclear threat is widely Kim Jong-un is the main tool for him to justify his position as commander of North Korea.


Nuclear weapons announced by North Korea test undermine regional and international security, and constitute a clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions.

North Korea must give up its nuclear weapons and existing nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs in a way a complete verifiable and irreversible manner, and to engage in a credible and authentic about nuclear disarmament talks.



11:51

NATO says the test "undermines international security"

NATO now at the front of a very long queue of groups condemning North Korea for their actions - including China, an ally of their own.


11:48

The test was a protest against Beijing?

China has taken a strong stand against the indulgence of North Korean leader in underground tests of nuclear bomb, saying it was "firmly opposed" the move.

She also said she did not get a warning from the test, and that means he was arrested and South Korea off guard when an earthquake caused by Plast rose across Asia.

This has prompted some speculation that Kim Jong-un in the process of forming a protest Beijing is trying to show its influence decline over the system.

Bo Zhiyue, Director of the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Center at Victoria University of Wellington, The Washington Post newspaper said on the way, this is a protest against Beijing. "

"They say:" We can do whatever we want. This shows that our independence and we do not need your approval. "

Mr. Kim last October seemed pleased when he met with high-level Chinese offocial, Liu Yunshan, who is number five in the hierarchy of the Chinese Communist Party - but the relationship soured?


11:01

What we know about the "hydrogen bomb" North Korea

If confirmed, it claims North Korea has tested a small hydrogen bomb and put it in a small group of countries.

It is usually split nuclear arsenals around the world into two parts, atomic bombs (known as bombs) and the most powerful hydrogen bombs.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, for example, was a bomb.

Preliminary estimates bomb in North Korea strength Keep this in six kilotons, which is almost the same level of power such as the bombs used in the previous trials in 2003 and 2009. The strength of the Hiroshima nearly 15 kilotons.

Six kt much smaller than any explosion of the hydrogen produced by the device, which South Korea refers to the payment of this bomb may have used nuclear fission techniques enhanced but not a nuclear bomb and extensive.




North Koreans celebrate as they watch the news broadcast on the video screen outside the railway station Pyongyang





10:45
Philip Hammond in talks with China, Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi

It seems that the Secretary of State to enjoy the same:



10:31
Russia says the test "a new step on the road to nuclear weapons."

The Russian Foreign Ministry also did reply to the test. The spokesman said:
On January 6, the North Korean government announced a successful test of the hydrogen bomb. Russia is considering this statement closely and analyzing technical information. If you can make sure that such a test would represent another step by Pyongyang to develop nuclear weapons, which would be a serious violation of international law and UN Security Council resolutions. These actions are fraught with the risk of exacerbating tensions on the Korean peninsula, which is already characterized by a high potential for political or military confrontation.



10:25
The EU says the test "a serious violation" of UN resolutions

If confirmed, this work represents a serious violation of (North Korea's) international obligations not to produce or test nuclear weapons, as determined by a number of Security Council resolutions of the United Nations, and a threat to peace and security in the north of the entire Asian region east.

Chairman of Foreign Affairs in the European Union Federica Mogherini


10:06

South Korea reduce claims and testing of the hydrogen bomb

Julian Real he discovered in Tokyo has this:

Julian Real Daily Telegraph that he discovered in Tokyo writes:

South Korean military has played down claims that the underground test in North Korea was the hydrogen bomb, supporting the theory that he was the enhanced fission device instead of a nuclear device.

An army spokesman in Seoul, Yonhap said that initial indications that the device was returning from a 6 kilotons, making it much smaller than that of the hydrogen bomb explosion that produces.

The official, who did not disclose his name, "I have only carried out a handful of countries, including the United States, Russia, and the hydrogen bomb tests, and the volume of bombings 20-50 megatons."



09:51
Japan deployed aircraft to collect radioactive waste

It sent the Interior Ministry in Japan three training aircraft T4 possible to collect radioactive substances in the air to do some analysis.

"To understand the potential impact of radioactive materials released by the test, self-defense and to collect dust in the air air force aircraft," said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.

", Is currently being sent to the Japan Center for chemical analysis," he said.

It is reported that no abnormal levels of radiation have been detected so far.




09:42

North Korea spends nearly a quarter of its GDP on arms

Julian Real Daily Telegraph that he discovered in Tokyo writes:
North Korea has spent almost a quarter of gross domestic product on the military in the 10 years up to 2012, according to data from the United States cited by Yonhap.

This level of spending means North Korea spend a greater proportion of its gross domestic product on the military in the world.

According to the expenditure and transfers of arms and military global report in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for 2015, and North spend an average of $ 4 billion a year on its armed forces, and some 23.8 percent of its GDP.

Oman was the second on the list, spending 10.9 per cent of the average gross domestic product (GDP).

North Korea also leads the world in terms of the number of troops relative to the total population, with 1170000 men and women under arms.


09:25
Slogans in Pyongyang announced the test of the hydrogen bomb

As is customary in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, when Aziz leader makes statement must be submitted to the nearest your television screen in droves.

These populations and perch Pyongyang even in warm coats gathered around where the official broadcast media at the railway station in the capital,




08:41
"Let's start in 2016 ... with an exciting sound of the first hydrogen bomb explosion."

Kim Jong-un announced test of the hydrogen bomb in the hand-written that have been broadcast on state television memorandum, it has emerged.

"Let's start the year 2016 with an exciting voice ... our first hydrogen bomb explosion, so that the whole world will look at our socialism, a nuclear-armed Republic Party and the great workers" from Korea! "Kim wrote in a letter next to his signature.

The news was broadcast on state television, which also showed a copy of the initial Kim is signed on December 15 in December.

The TV show also second-class dated January 3 that occurred Kim off the final approval for the test to be held on January 6, AFP reported.


North Korean leader Kim Jong-un guide a rocket experiment published in North Korea's Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang this image. She said the South Korean government and Japanese is "likely" that conducted a nuclear test in the January 6, 2016 earthquake that caused the near well-known in the country experiences an isolated site of North Korea.



08:19

South Korean troops massing on the border

Only in this picture - it shows South Korean soldiers pass the self-propelled howitzer K-9 155MM on the field in the border city of Paju, near the demilitarized zone. Paju is very close to the North Korean regime to one of the adjacent cities have, Kaepoong, not visible from the control site in South Korea, as shown in the second picture.



Southern Korean soldiers walk in all 9 K 155MM howitzer self-payment on the field in the border city of Paju, near the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas

And it looks at the North Korean border province of Kaepoong control of South Korea center in Paju near the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas

08:14

Where are the test?

Initial reports said the quake registered a magnitude 5.1 in North Korea near the well-known test site in the isolated country.

It is called Punggye ri nuclear test sites, which are in the northern province of Kijaw Hamgyong Province.

This is the same location where the alleged took place 2006.2009 and 2013 nuclear bomb tests place.

Click on the map below to view the north-east of the test site and its distance from Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.


07:13
Nuclear testing times North Korea to perfection

Julian Real he discovered in Tokyo

Underground nuclear test conducted by North Korea on Wednesday, has been described as an early birthday holiday for Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea gift, but analysts believe that the system has timed out the latest show of force carefully.

"North Korea has announced that it will hold its first party conference in 35 years in May, Mr. Kim may not feel that he has not done enough to strengthen his position, showing that he now has a hydrogen bomb is calculated to significantly increase its position and said Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Waseda University in Tokyo and the authority of the North Korean leadership, The Telegraph ".

"I also believe that through the implementation of the test now, Kim has three months to ease relations with China, which is still the most important ally." He added

Beijing is concerned that in addition to the unrest in the country due to the unstable economic situation, and will shy away from any course of action could trigger more internal anxiety.

It will have been another concern of Western governments with the events in the Middle East, particularly in light of the escalating between Saudi Arabia and Iran considered the crisis.

Because other global hotbeds of tension, and analysts believe may be able to mobilize a lot of response and that Kim may be calculated wisely international community.

"It came as a serious shock in South Korea and my feeling is that there is no possible options to stop Pyongyang on this road," said Yale Rah-jung, a former head of the South Korean intelligence.

"The international community condemns these actions, but we have no effective way to counter this development," he said. "Even China, which served as a stabilizing force in the past, does not have a lot of cards to play."

Professor Shigemura expected Pyongyang to be more conciliatory again later this year, after the dust has settled from the test, and Mr. Kim was able to demonstrate his mastery of his enemies in the party conference.

06:59

France urges 'strong reaction'

France has joined the chorus of condemnation after North Korea's reported test, calling for a "strong reaction from the international community", President Francois Hollande's office said.
The statement called the test "an unacceptable violation of UN Security Council resolutions".







 "The republic's first hydrogen bomb test has been successfully performed at 10:00 am (0330 GMT)," North Korean state television announced.

"With the perfect success of our historic H-bomb, we have joined the rank of advanced nuclear states," it said, adding that the test was of a miniaturised device.

A hydrogen, or thermonuclear bomb, uses fusion in a chain reaction that results in a far more powerful explosion than the fission blast generated by uranium or plutonium alone.




 It throws down a particular challenge to Barack Obama, who, during a visit to South Korea in 2014, lashed North Korea as a "pariah state" and vowed sanctions with "more bite" if Pyongyang went ahead with another test.

Ned Price, White House National Security Council spokesman, said he could not confirm the H-bomb claim, but promised the US would "respond appropriately to any and all North Korean provocations".