"Pyongyang's behavior in relation to the world community is so dismissive that it is simply impossible to leave without consequences that happened." Something like this can briefly summarize the reaction of most world leaders to the next test of nuclear weapons in the DPRK.
Japanese seismologists recorded an explosion one of the first ...
Many experts believe that the entire Asia-Pacific region, and over Russia, hung a real threat-and no new sanctions will obviously stop
Kim Jong-un , the young leader of North Korea, who is under the rule of his surroundings from the elderly generals, to whom he is forced to prove his right to manage the country.
The state
television of North Korea on Tuesday stated that the test of nuclear weapons proved the national sovereignty of the state and its security in conditions, a quote, a "miserable hostility of the United States." Here is a part of the official statement-listen to how the dictator’s metal voice sounds mechanically-infernal:
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Announcer TV DPRK - about the latest nuclear tests
This statement followed immediately after the seismic stations in the Asia-Pacific region recorded a strong underground impetus in the area, where, as it is supposed, the North Korean testing ground Punge-Ri was located. Russian experts say that the impetus happened at 6 hours 57 minutes in the morning Moscow time - its magnitude was about 5.3. However, the US geophysical service believes that the magnitude was about 5.1 - in seismology, this is a very great difference in data ...
South Korea - Anti North Korea Civic Group Hold Signs and Chant Slogans During a Rally Denouncing North Corea's Possible Nuxible Nuxe Test Plan, In Seoul, 31jan2013
In any case, the explosion was large or average, Pyongyang’s actions caused a sharp reaction of the world community - especially in the United States, on the day when President Barack Obama performs with the annual message to
the State of the Union Congress ("On the Regulation in the Country"). Obama called the new nuclear test an extremely provocative step. No less tough statements followed the British Foreign Office, the governments of Japan and South Korea. South Korean defense minister Kim Kwan Jin said that Pyongyang would pay for his behavior:
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South Korean Defense Minister of Seoul reaction
"Our government noted an earthquake of magnitude at 4.9, and we suspect that such seismic activity testifies-the power of the nuclear explosion was at least 6-7 kilotons. Now we have intensified vigilance due to the possible additional test or launch of the missile from the DPRK. For the time we involved and united all the special intelligence resources of Southern Korea and the USA. South Korea will be in everything in everything To cooperate with our allies, primarily the United States, and with the entire world community, we will force North Korea. Moscow, which has always had strange "personal relations" with the DPRK, with the lips of the head of its foreign policy, Sergei Lavrov joined the angry choir.
Sergey Lavrov, who continues a trip to Africa, had to talk about the DPRK ...
However, Lavrov immediately added that, according to the Kremlin (translated into a completely affordable language), respond with military preparations to a direct nuclear threat from the neighbor "ugly":
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Sergey Lavrov about Russia's fears
China (the nearest, if not the only) North Office of the DPRK also stated that he condemns Pyongyang's actions. Beijing can be understood - it is for him, in the event of a real threat of US military intervention in the situation on the Korean peninsula or even clearly visible preparation for such actions, at least will have to sharply increase his military budget ... although the Chinese Foreign Ministry has not yet changed itself - calling all the countries of the region to calm and emphasizing the need for the speedy resumption
of six -way negotiations on the north Korean nuclear program (with participation with participation DPRK, China, USA, South Korea, Japan and Russia).
The North Korean leader Kim Jong -un, obviously, decided to continue the policy of his father and grandfather,
Kim Jong Ira and
Kim Il Sen , who have long turned nuclear blackmail into the only way to communicate with the neighbors and countries of the West, political scientist Alexei Arbatov, one of the leading experts in Russia in the field of international relations and control over weapons:
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Alexey Arbatov - About Pyongyang Nuclear Policy
In connection with nuclear trials in the DPRK, the UN Security Council gathered an emergency meeting. It is not yet possible to stop Pyongyang neither threats nor sanctions - although the last time the tests of nuclear charges in North Korea were carried out for a long time, in 2006 and 2009. But for an absolutely impoverished rogue country, it is impressive and alarming successes and pace ...