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 actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States.”
His comments came hours after the US Geological Survey picked up a 6.3-magnitude “explosion” in North Korea, which Pyongyang confirmed was a nuclear test, its sixth.
The isolated regime said this one was of a hydrogen bomb that could be fitted atop a ballistic missile, sharply raising the stakes in a US-North Korea confrontation.
Trump last month threatened North Korea with “fire and fury” if it continued to threaten the US, but he refrained from direct threats in his latest tweets.
“South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!” he said.
“North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success.”
Japan’s prime minister Abe said: “(North Korea) ignored repeated warnings by the international community and forcibly conducted a nuclear test. It is absolutely unacceptable.”
Meanwhile, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in, said North Korea should be punished in a “strong way.”
“With the international society, we must come up with a strong way to punish them, and make it inevitable for them to give up their nuclear weapons.”
(with Agence France Press report, video)