Nuclear test shows North Korea remains dangerous to US - Trump

President Donald Trump Photo: Jeff Roberson/AP

President Donald Trump Photo: Jeff Roberson/AP

Published Sep 3, 2017

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Washington - North Korea’s “words and

actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United

States,” US President Donald Trump said on Twitter in his

first reaction after Pyongyang conducted its sixth and most

powerful nuclear test on Sunday.

“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,” Trump said in a second tweet.

North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test. Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States.....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017

The White House said Trump's national security team was

"monitoring this closely" and that the president would convene a

meeting of his advisers later on Sunday.

North Korea said it had tested an advanced hydrogen bomb for

a long-range missile on Sunday, setting off a manmade earthquake

near the test. Japanese and South Korean officials said that

tremor was about 10 times more powerful than the one picked up

after the nation's last nuclear test a year ago.

There was no independent confirmation that the detonation

was a hydrogen bomb rather than a less powerful atomic weapon of

the kind Pyongyang has tested in the past.

Trump also rebuked South Korea on Twitter, saying "their

talk of appeasement with North Korea won't work, they (North

Korea) only understand one thing."

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!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017

US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on Sunday that he

would put together a package of new sanctions to potentially cut

off all global trade with North Korea.

"If countries want to do business with the United States,

they obviously will be working with our allies and others to cut

off North Korea economically," Mnuchin said on Fox News.

Senator Jeff Flake, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations

Committee, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that the

United States had no good options when it came to North Korea.

..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.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017

“Obviously the test yesterday shows they are further along

than everyone figured,” said Flake, a Republican. He said

sanctions did not appear to have slowed the advance of North

Korea’s nuclear program, “but I don’t think harsh rhetoric does

either.”

Often critical of Trump, Flake declined to address his

comment about South Korea's "talk of appeasement," but said: "I

think South Korea will be with us whatever we decide." 

Reuters

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