Aide: Obama seeks to starve NKorean leader of attention

It is likely that the North sent a drone to study movements of frontline military units, which have been on the highest level of alert since the resumption of the propaganda broadcasts last week, which the North brands “an act of war”.

On Tuesday, U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to impose harsher sanctions against the DPRK. She did not give specifics.

Park said Seoul and Beijing were discussing a draft UN Security Council resolution on North Korea, noting that Beijing has stated repeatedly that it would not tolerate the North’s nuclear program.

China is the North’s main ally and trade partner but it opposes its bombs, while China’s ties with United States ally South Korea have grown closer in recent years.

“I think the Chinese will be onboard for more worldwide sanctions, but I don’t think the Chinese will come onboard to really touch the fundamental support that China is providing to Pyongyang“, said Yun.

“I believe the Chinese government will not allow the situation on the Korean peninsula to deteriorate further”, Ms Park told a news conference.

UNITED NATIONS-North Korea’s U.N. mission claimed Wednesday that its successful nuclear bomb test showed that it could now “wipe out” the United States, as the U.N. Security Council grappled with a response to the underground blast. “They said as North Korea enacted its nuclear test despite continued warnings from the worldwide society, they will respond correspondingly, through diplomatic pressure”. But it didn’t register when President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union speech.

“We hope that our fellow Koreans in the North will be able to live in a society that doesn’t invade individual lives as soon as possible”, a female presenter said in parts of the broadcast that officials revealed to South Korean media.

On January 6, Pyongyang claimed it had carried out its first hydrogen bomb test, triggering condemnation from the worldwide community which denounced the test as provocative and undermining stability in the region.

“The latest test demands a response”, said House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel, a co-sponsor of the House bill, according to The Washington Post.

To become law, it must also pass the U.S. Senate and be signed by Obama. Since Friday, South Korea has been blasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda and K-pop songs 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.