in seoul. thank you. >> and north korean television released this statement a short while ago. the h-bomb test was carries out to show the power, control, technology and internal structural design h-bomb to be placed at the payload of the icbm. let's wring in will ripley who has been to north korea 14 times and knows the country extremely well. will, we knew that north korea was going to conduct a nuclear test. it was a matter of when. you told us so, yourself. where does this leave us in terms of the level of threat that north korea poses and what does it mean that is it an h-bomb, a hydrogen bomb. >> the messaging is surreal. i just woke up in pyongyang, yesterday and north korea was putting out statements that indicated they may be opening the door for diplomacy. the leading newspaper, the mouth piece of the ruling workers party that the united states needs to change its position of refusing to acknowledge north korea as a nuclear weapons state. north korea believes that the united states has an unfair position still policy toward them and they called that justification for contin

in will ripley, joining us from tokyo. will, we get this word from north korean state tv that there will be a major announcement a short time from now. the expectation is that they will confirm that there was a nuclear test. >> reporter: that's right. and having just woken up yesterday in pyongyang, north korea, arrived back here in tokyo last night, the timing of this is not necessarily a surprise given the fact that north korea has been talking about their nuclear program all week. they had just put out a statement within the last 12 hours or so, those new photos of north korea's supreme leader kim jong-un standing over what they claim is a miniaturized h-bomb, a nuclear war head they can put on an intercontinental ballistic missile. north korea has been saying, both in conversations with government officials in north korea and also via their state media, that they think it is time for the united states to recognize them as a nuclear power, as a nuclear weapon state, something that north korea has sought for quite a long time. they believe that the u.s. has a hostile policy agains

stems from the korean war. north korea contradicts western historians, saying that america started the war that killed millions of civilians and divided the korean peninsula. >> who do you want to fight? >> translator: to fight the sworn enemy, americans. >> what do they teach you about americans in school? >> translator: they forcibly invaded us, slaughtered our people, buried them, buried them alive. buried them alive and killed them. >> so they teach you that the americans are the enemy, and you need to shoot them, to fight them? >> translator: yes. >> here's where things get awkward. what if i told you i'm an american? do you want to shoot me too? >> translator: yes. there are good people. we'll see if you're a good person or a bad person. >> i'm a good american, so don't shoot me. >> translator: um, no. i won't shoot. >> this is the paradox of north korea. smiling young people, friendly, polite, even as they tell me how much they hate the united states. from their earliest years, these children are told america could tack at anytime, told they must prepare for the next war. in nor

? >> translator: americans. >> this hatred of americans stems from the korean war. north korea contradicts western historians, saying that america started the war that killed millions of civilians and divided the korean peninsula. >> who do you want to fight? >> translator: to fight the sworn enemy, americans. >> what do they teach you about americans in school? >> translator: they forcibly invaded us, slaughtered our people, buried them, buried them alive. buried them alive and killed them. >> so they teach you that the americans are the enemy, and you need to shoot them, to fight them? >> translator: yes. >> here's where things get awkward. >> what if i told you i'm an american? do you want to shoot me, too? >> translator: yes. there are good people. we'll see if you're a good person or a bad person. >> i'm a good american, so don't shoot me. >> translator: um, no. i won't shoot. >> this is the paradox of north korea. smiling young people, friendly, polite, even as they tell me how much they hate the united states. from their earliest years, these children are told america could attack a

for example a total ban on north korean workers raising money for the north korean regime and also a total ban on oil and petroleum sales to north korea the original version also had the north korean leader designated for an asset freeze and a travel ban those will come out of the new draft the aim is to get the russians and chinese on board so it is a weaker resolution and i put to the british ambassador was arriving to the meeting matthew ryecroft the fact that you've added some new sanction areas here particularly on textiles but north korea hasn't taken any notice of sanctions in the past first of all these are significantly tougher sanctions secondly you're right that's actually take time to have an impact but it's only over the last year also that the security council has been sanctioning sectors of the economy and the textile sector is the final sector of the economy that is not until tonight subject to a battle on exports so this is a very significant tightening up still further of the constraints on the north korean regime. the big question is how russia and the chinese are

united states. moreover, the apparent speed in which these north korean advancements have occurred are challenging the security structure across east asia creating dangerous instability in the region and that instability will likely be dealing with for decades to come. so today this committee is going to discuss the tools that must be deployed and fully utilized to address these threats. and i believe the response from the united states and our allies should be super charged. we need to use every ounce of leverage. when i had breakfast this morning with secretary tillerson we layed out these issues. that leverage includes sanctions, it includes diplomacy, it includes projecting information into north korea to put maximum pressure on this rogue regime. time is running out. and let's be clear, sanctions can still have an important impact. north korea's advanced weapons programs rely on foreign sourced technology. much of these programs are made outside the country. north korea pays an inordinate amount of money and it has to have hard currency to do it to run this very expensive icbm

war on the korean peninsula. but china has been happy to have north korea as something of an attack dog keeping the u.s. at bay, keeping the u.s. firmly in south korea, and keeping the u.s. somewhat unsettled. i've spoken to u.s. military officials who believe that china has even more ambitious goals that china wants to see u.s. troops off of the korean peninsula entirely and is therefore happy to see north korea act in a belligerent way. but it is a very delicate balance. you can have an aggressive proxy in north korea, but you don't want that aggressive actor to go too far and risk a massive escalation which could lead to the north korean collapse, it could lead to a catastrophic loss of life in south korea, could lead to a catastrophic loss of life of american troops and civilians who are in south korea as well. because in addition to those 28,500 troops, there are tens of thousands more civilians and family members, american civilians and family members, on the peninsula as well. it is an incredibly delicate balance where the u.s. and chinese strategic interests might not be ali

. countries expelled sanctioned north korean officials, prevent certain individuals from answering the jurisdiction, reduce the size of the north korean diplomatic missions in the country and cancel or downgrade diplomatic engagement or exchanges. in recent day the recent days wo announcements about their efforts to downgrade relations on north korea. countries have whole to get a visa issuance and are phasing out the use of these workers. south korea, japan and australia implemented unilateral national sanctions targeted entities and individuals and european partners are collaborating on maximizing pressure on the dpr k.. despite all of this, we have yet to see a notable change in the dangerous behavior or signs that it's interested in the talks on the denuclearization. we will continue to step up sanctions are the entities enabling the dpr k. regime and its programs following the nuclear test we are pressing hard for the security council resolution which was adopted last night and we hope that these new sanctions including textiles, positions on oil and shipping etc. they continue to

do and they do nothing. just so i'm sophie shevardnadze resident north korean missile launch over japan is causing yet another escalation with a military response in the air what can stop the region from the slide into open confrontation of former japanese government advisor militarist scholar dr naresh. my guest today. fear is building in the asia pacific as north korea launches missile after missile defying international sanctions and resolutions leaving the world's power scrambling for countermeasures is there a limit to north korea and the world's patients with it will the provocation see a real military response from the u.s. and its allies and what can be done to avoid an all out war. dr mara's she gave me a former japanese government advisor and military scholar while come to this show it's good to have you with us so the latest north korean test lending two thousand kilometers of hokkaido the second missile to fly over japan in less than three weeks error rate signals were sounded people were told to hide in basements there's been a balloon in bomb shelter cells in japan a

so the way this north korean test so lending two thousand kilometer system of hokkaido the second missile to fly over japan in less than three weeks error rate signals were sounded people were told to hide in basements there's been a boom in bomb shelter sales in japan are you scared. well i'm not scared but people upset and. good news is that. the people who. through media and different. take. pan is pretty well protected by the missile defense systems we have one two different systems one is a sea based. system called the s m three broke one day and the other one is based here and the missile defense system called the patriot three and those so recently the japanese government started to conduct a civil defense exercises based on a missile attack similar scenario so people are running i mean there have been several missed hops for example i mean. mrs you know the. civil defense message. said told people to get inside saw the buildings in the areas there are not many solid buildings so they people became their panicky but we be able to fix it kind of messages in the future so. ne

legitimately called city busters. this means that the north koreans don't have to have a terribly accurate missile is attacking the city when you have that kind of a yield. it's a very large weapon. it's not as big as weapons can be they are true thermonuclear weapons, a lot of the yield comes from fusion as opposed to fission, but it's a very large weapon. share with you reporting from "washington post," the bomb was a two-stage weapon with the yield that analysts say could make a city buster. it was felt in northern china with emergency sirens blaring along the north korean border, according to local media. south korean authorities say sunday's earthquake appeared to be artificial, consistent with a nuclear test. it was north korea's the sixth nuclear test, the first since president trump was inaugurated. they going to report the recent nuclear testing happen exactly on the hour often with meaningful dates either for north korea or the u.s., this is a holiday weekend in the u.s., marking labor day. china expressing annoyance and launches, and analysts have said china probably would not t

the tremor was man made. north korean state media said earlier it had a hydrogen bomb that it could be put on an intercontinental ballistic missile. now they ran these images that you're looking at on your screen. they ran these pictures purpo purporting to show north korea leader kim jong-un expecting the device. let's go to straight to seoul south korea. bring us up to speed with the latest as you're hearing it. i know the south koreans were holding a national security council meeting. >> that's right. the meeting is still ongoing. that meeting convened about half an hour ago. we're also hearing that the south korean military has been put on a higher state of alert. there's also more surveillance taking place right now of north korea. that according to the joint chiefs of staff. they're just analyzing what took place in that northeastern corner of north korea, where we've known that nuclear tests have taken place in the past. this one, according to the united states geological survey, a magnitude 6.3, which is, according to the earthquake scale ten times larger than the test that

north korean government to halt its efforts to develop a long-range nuclear missile. the sanctions imposed will ban all natural gas imports and textile exports. and cap north korea's annual oil and petroleum imports. here's the hour-long debate. >>> the 8,042nd meeting is called to order. the provisional agenda for this meeting is nonproliferation. the agenda is adopted. in accordance with rule 37 of the council's provisional rules of procedure, i invite the representative of the republic of north korea to participate in this meeting. it is so decided. the security council will now begin its consideration of item 2 of the agenda. members of the council have before them document s/2717/769. the text of the draft was initially submitted by the united states of america. the council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. i shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. would those in favor of the draft resolution contend in document s-2017-769, please raise their hand. the result of the voting is as follows. the draft resolution received 15 votes in favor.

and this news comes a few hours after the north korean state agency reported the military developed a new advanced nuclear weapon. pictures surfaced of kim jong-un observing what is said to have been a hydrogen bomb and loading it into an icbm. the south korean president is expecting to convene a meeting of the national security council. an explosion in north korea but we have no confirmation of what type of explosion it might be and whether it is nuclear in nature. ron allen joins us now from seoul, south korea. what can you tell us about the situation there? >> it's widely expected that this will be a nuclear detonation under ground, a test. you know there is an ongoing back and forth shows of forth between north korea, the united states and south korea that launch of a missile over japan, the huge show of force by the u.s. military here as part of military exercises and as you pointed out this morning in north korea and the north korean government released pictures showing their leader apparently inspecting what they claim is a new extremely powerful hydrogen bomb. that of course

members of the council on day representative is software called on the north korean government to halt its efforts to develop a long-range nuclear missile. the sanctions imposed will be in all natural gas imports and textile imports and cap north korea's annual oil and petroleum imports. this is 90 minutes. [indiscernible conversation] >> the 8,042 meeting of the security council is called to order. [gavel pound] >> the provisional agenda for this meeting is nonproliferation, democratic people's republic of korea. the agenda is adopted. [gavel pound] in accordance with rule 37 of the council's provision of rules of procedure, i invite the representative for the republic of korea to participate in this meeting. it is so decided. [gavel pound] >> the security council will now begin its consideration of item two of the agenda. members of the council have before them document s/2017/769. that takes of the draft resolution submitted by the united states of america. the council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. i shall put the draft resolution to the vot

sanctions, members of the council and a representative of south korea hold on the north korean government to halt its efforts to develop a long-range nuclear missile. the sanctions imposed will ban all natural gas imports in textile imports, and cap north korea's annual oil and petroleum imports. this is 90 minutes. >> a 42nd meeting is called to order. the agenda for this meeting is non-peripheral asian -- peoples -- non-peripheralation. with provision of i invite theedure, republic of korea to participate in this meeting. it is so decided. the security council will now begin. in consideration with item two of the agenda. members have before them, document s-guest: "landmark cases" host: sen. lankford:--- s/'s 717. the council is ready to proceed to the volts -- to the votes. draft to thehe vote now. will those in favor of the draft resolution contend in document hand. please raise their the result of the voting is as followed. the draft resolution received 15 votes in favor. the draft resolution has been adopted unanimously. and now give the floor to those who wants the council to make

, lonely space that is north korea. those images are a good illustration of where the north korean regime is today. it is alone. it is dark. and it's getting darker. north korea's neighbors, its trading partners and the entire international community are united against its dangerous and illegal actions. today's resolution builds on what were already the deepest-cutting sanctions ever leveled against north korea. we've been down this road before. the security council has expressed its condemnation. we've leveled sanctions. but today is different. we are acting in response to a dangerous new development. north korea's september 3 test of acclaimed hydrogen bombs. today we are saying the world will never accept a nuclear-armed north korea and today the security council is saying that if the north korean regime does not halt its nuclear program, we will act to stop it ourselves. over the years, we have learned many things about the north korean regime. we have learned that it does not care about being a part of the community of decent, law-abiding nations. it has violated every united nations

. much of the north korean countryside is undeveloped with very little infrastructure, but that also means the landscape is relatively untouched. and i must say, the scenery is striking. majestic mountains, thick forests. and this seaside city. we made it here to won san, a mid sized industrial city, the fifth largest in north korea on the east coast. popular for tourists, known for great seafood, fishing and something else. won san is one of north korea's main missile launch sites, and they've been launching missiles at an unprecedented pace. north korea even has intercontinental ballistic missile, potentially nuclear capable and within striking range of the u.s. for the first time ever. in the 1980s north korea's founder, kim ill son launched the country's first missile. but since kim jong-un came to power no 2011 he's advanced the nuclear programs faster than anyone predicted. why do they keep doing this? >> translator: for one, propaganda. each launch helps north korea's leaders protect power. but also missiles are like an insurance policy for the regime, protecting north korea f

whose business supports the north korean regime. whether directly or indirectly. by encompassing both the economic activity in north korea, these measures would represent the toughest financial sanctions yet directed at north korea. this means going after coal, petroleum, textiles and minerals as well as north korean laborers abroad. in addition, the bill would incentivize greater by leveraging our vote at the international financial institutions were certain countries with lax enforcement go to seek assistance. this bill puts those countries on notice. this proposed legislation has been informed by the committee's ongoing work on north korea, as well as the un panel of experts evaluation of existing sanctions effectiveness. needless to say, north korea's sixth nuclear test on september 3, coupled with its repeated launching of intermediate and long-range ballistic missiles underlines that more must be done. as a result, the legislative draft will be looking at plays out a choice. foreign banks can either do business that benefits north korea, or they can do business with the united s

hatred of americans stems from the korean war. north korea trcontradicts weste historia historians. >> who do you want to fight? >> to fight the sworn enemy, americans. >> what do they teach you about americans in school? >> translator: they forcibly insaturdayi invaded us, buried them alive and killed them. >> they teach you americans are the enemy and you need to shoot them and fight them? >> yes. >> what if i'm told you i'm an american, do you want to shoot me, too? >> yes. there are good people. we'll see if you're a good person or a bad person. >> i'm a good american so don't shoot me. >> u >> translator: um, no, i won't shoot. >> this is the paradox of north korea, smiling, polite, even as they tell me they hate the united states. from their earliest years, these children could attack at any time, told they must prepare for the next war. in north korea government minders watch our every move and restrict what we can film, even if this is what we want to see, high school students horsing around at the beach. i can't help but wonder what do they actually know about america. >>

announcement coming out at 2:30 a.m. eastern time coming from the north korean government claiming that they had, indeed, tested an h-bomb and indeed that is what they had done. that is the latest in terms of what we know briefly. with us covering the story we have ron allen in seoul, south korea, we have richard engel in london and jack jacobs. ron allen, go straight to you first. you're closest to where this is happening. i gave a quick brief of what is happening. there are certainly more details. if you could fill us in. >> reporter: yes, richard. we're still trying to understand exactly what happened, exactly what the north koreans tested, exactly what capacity they have. i was just reading a message from the -- an update from the south korean government that says that the senior adviser for defense, secretary of defense and national security has talked to h.r. mcmaster, the national security adviser to the president, president trump, over the phone just a little while ago in an emergency phone call. not to be unexpected, to be expected exactly that the south koreans and the united

whichever ones you want but what is the what is each side look at north korean let's look at the u.s. what do they want to get out of this go ahead. you have to look at the basic internal dynamic in the korean peninsula in which you have two korean states the north and the south each claiming to be the sole legitimate korean state representing the entire korean people in that contest for korean legitimacy to much of the world it's clear who has won south korea is a global leader in electronic shipping and open prosperous society north korea not so much what that means is the sheer existence of the south korean state a society as a magnet for the north korean people presents an existential challenge for the kim regime by the conventional indices of measuring state power military power economic power culture soft power and so on south korea is way ahead of the north except for in the field of military power so kim has a compelling need to be a menace not only to south korea to try to isolate him ask and to dominate seoul but also a threat a credible threat to the united states to get the u.s

much better at getting information into north korea so that the north koreans can better understand the brutality and corruption of the self-serving regime. they are already pressuring the regime preheating some unrest and increasing defections from north korea, but i'm afraid here our efforts graded poorly. international broadcasting and so many% just have not been a priority and that is unacceptable in this situation. while we should take an approach in nortand north korea, the reas this regime will never be at peace with its people, its neighbors were with us. and now is the time to apply that pressure. with that said let me turn to the ranking member of the committee, mr. eliot engel of new york. >> mr. chairman, thank you for calling this hearing. you and i have worked together for a long time on the korean situation. we had a hearing on this topic to start the year and the committee is working in a bipartisan manner with fans the toughest sanctions that are now u.s. law. yesterday the council unanimously agreed to the resolution to 375 in response to the regime's. we can hear

north korean missile launch over japan is causing yet another escalation with a military response in the air what can stop the region from the slide into open confrontation of former japanese government advisor militarist scholar dr naresh. guest today. as north korea launches missile after missile international sanctions and resolutions the world's powers scrambling for countermeasures is there a limit to north korea and the world's patients with it the provocation see a real true spawn's from the u.s. and its allies and what can be done to avoid an all out war. dr morrow she gave me a former japanese government advisor and military scholar welcome to the show it's good to have you with us so the way this north korean test so the lending two thousand kilometer system of hokkaido the second missile to fly over japan in less than three weeks error rate signals were sounded people were told to hide in basements there's been a boom in bomb shelter sales in japan are you scared. well i'm not scared but people upset and. good news is that. the people who. through media and different. take

u.s. national security council analyst on north korea from seoul by union qualm former south korean foreign minister and from beijing by charles liu a senior fellow at the peking university center on china and global affairs and the founder of how capital thank you all for joining me on this special edition of outfront robert gallucci let me start with you there's been escalating rhetoric from both sides missile tests joint exercises u.n. vote it all seems to be kicking off but how close do you think we actually are to all out war to an armed conflict between the united states and allies and in the d.p. r. k. north korea where i want to say is that we're not close at all but then of course i don't know and i think it's hard for anybody to know when you have leaders in the two countries. kim jong un and president trump who are relatively new to. this deterrence game and i don't mean that flippantly but the dynamic of that interaction you referred to some of their their comments so yes we could have a situation in which there's an escalation in north could do would have threatened to

july, the north koreans have moved much of their training activity offshore, using third party brokers. the specter of financial sanctions may concentrate the mind of foreign banks so that the entities identified have fewer options to carry out transactions and mask north korean involvement. this bill would expand the scope of our sanctions to encompass those engaged in conventional trade with the north. given north korea's hostility, broader and our efforts in this way is essential. to strongeronse sanctions has been cited as a concern. the country accounts for an 90% of north korea's trade. some have argued that harsher now may damage cooperated of efforts with chinese leaders to curb north korea's weapons program. i would cement those critics should be more sensitive to a quarter century of failed efforts to rein in pyongyang. there comes a time where caution becomes a euphemism for self-delusion. as this subcommittee learned in july, if china is not part of the solution to north korea, it is part of the problem. chinese officials have full and short on in forcing u.s. itsel

after coal, petroleum, textiles and minerals . and north korean laborers abroad. the bill would incentivize greater compliance with u.s. sanctions by -- where certain countries with lax enforcement go to seek assistance. the bill's countries on notice. the proposed legislation has been informed by the committee's ongoing work on north korea as well as the u.n. panel of --erts evaluation of existing sanctions effectiveness. north korea's six tests on september 3 coupled with repeated launching of ballistic missiles undermines -- underlines that more must be done. legislative drafting we will be looking at laid out a choice. foreign banks can either do is get that benefits north korea, or they can do business with the united states. they cannot do both. as many of us here are aware, this is a similar approach taken to the one in 2010 against iran, which helped compel the ayatollah negotiate. while there are differences of opinion over how successful those negotiations were, there is consensus that in the absence of secondary sanctions affecting banks, it would've been less incenti

family, friends, neighbors. each and every north korean has to participate in the neighborhood watch system. each and every north korean has to participate in weekly indoctrination sessions were people confess to their in criticism.gage -- others criticize them and go on and on and on. truly the life of a north korean is lived under an overwhelming coercion, control, surveillance and punishment which means a level of social cohesion is very low. it difficult for people to get together to organize and discuss . torea continues restrict information coming into the country and also information --ting out of the country what was the age of the revolution? late teens, early 20's? at the age of the revolution, each and every young man in north korea is in a military uniform for 10 years. also, many of the women spend six years in a military uniform. i have spoken with numerous north koreans whose sons have come back from the military after having spent 10 years. they said all the they had lived under this permanent indoctrination, the level of indoctrination that their sons have been subje

the japanese island of hokkaido before landing in the pacific ocean but it's the second north korean missile to fly over japan in less than a month prime minister shinzo condemned the launch and called for international action. now is the time for the international community to come together the latest sanctions need to be imposed in full north korea needs to be made to understand that if it continues on this path there is no bright future for it. well the u.s. secretary of state is calling on all nations to take new measures against north korea specifically he said china and russia must indicate their intolerance for these reckless launches by taking direct actions of their own well we have our correspondent craig least in tokyo with reaction from japan but first let's cross live to hundred thomas he's in the south korean capital seoul and to the south koreans had been expecting this launch i suppose how they've been responding so far . well they certainly were expecting it and north korea had made no secret after the u.n. resolution was passed on monday imposing tougher sanctions on them t

even more serious. first we adopted resolution 2356 , designating high-ranking north korean government officials as military strategic rocket forces command for individual sanctions. last month after the regime's first two icbm launches, we , theed resolution 2371 strongest sanctions we have ever imposed on north korea. that resolution band north andan exports of coal, iron seafood and impose several measures that will significantly cut off the revenues needed to fund their nuclear program. why did i take the time to go through this? to make this point. the united nations security council has spoken with unusual unity and consistency on north korea. that is a good thing. along the way there have been problems with ample mentation and the council has at times -- with implementation and at times the council has been too slow or week. this is not a time when we have allowed division to stop any action. despite our efforts over the past 24 years, the north korea nuclear program is more advanced and more dangerous than ever. they now fire missiles over japanese airspace. they now have icbm

issues, to work on these issues. the broader public, they have lived with a north korean front for decades and it doesn't mean they are not concerned but they are not panicking after every single nuclear test or missile test, as you may expect them to based on headlines in the newspapers or on tv and it's carried through the western media. now in south korea of course the concern exists but most people here, the average person is actually more concerned about their day to day life, they are more concerned about earning a living, the next month's paycheque, prospering, gaining economic wealth and prosperity, and so it's actually, there is quite a bit of a disconnect... on the ground here we re disconnect... on the ground here were you read in the papers or see on tv. we're looking at of kim jong—un inspecting what north korea says it is a hydrogen bomb, capable of going on to a missile. earlier we we re of going on to a missile. earlier we were talking about being careful about these kinds of announcements. do you think we should be treating them with a degree of scepticism? do yo

korean capital seoul north korea's not officially on the agenda but the south is hoping to discuss how to calm regional tension the wife of pakistan's prime minister nawaz sharif has won his parliamentary seat in the byelection in the city of lahore hyder reports. right in the meantime human rights groups say thousands of women have been raped and sexually assaulted during the four year war in south sudan they blame the abuses on government troops of president salva kiir an opposition forces loyal to the former vice president riek machar a catholic priest who was rescued after being held for four months by eisel supporters in the philippines has made his first public appearance was rescued on saturday when the military overran the fighters control center inside a mosque in memoirs city he was taken hostage during the first day of fighting here there in may general motors has announced a recall of more than two and a half million vehicles in china over concerns about airbags made by the japanese giant. and those are the headlines news continues right here on al-jazeera after upfront

here but if you take a look at the way the north koreans look at the world libya iraq. then all of a sudden their thinking is a lot more rational because he's crazy right know it's actually a very rational foreign policy you know the korean war is the forgotten war and that's what the mainstream media wants the public to understand that it is a forgotten war so they don't publicize it much it's very cartoonish all the sudden you know this another dictator has just magically sprung up in another country far away for which the u.s. now has to take care of him so it's the same story just recycled over and over ok what else is recycled your dream is that you know the north koreans that they won't negotiate their irrational that they have proposed the freeze for freeze a double freeze you know ending the military american military exercise with the south koreans would they have what twenty four thousand troops there are stationed there you have you have a good part of the american navy around the arena and installed and you're asking them to stop their testing ok that's pretty fair russia

5.1 tremor detected in 2016. a statement from a north korean describes ats a successful h-bock test true to the plan for build a nuclear force. south korea shurd a statement saying they're pushing for u.s. sanctions. we have correspondents and analysts from london to beijing to waurnds and we begin with ron allen in seoul, south korea. what do you know about this test and what are you hearing from north korea and south korea? >> well, we know this was a massive explosion that reportedly was felt in china and russia, countries nearby north korea. we don't know exactly what it was. we know what the north koreans are claiming. they're claiming that it was a hydrogen bomb, not a nuclear weapon, stronger than a nuclear weapon, many times for powerful and they're claiming that it was a weapon that was small enough to be put inside and launched by a long range missile. if all that is true and again it hasn't been verified, that would be a major step forward, a major technological achievement and escalation of the tension here on the korean peninsula. south korea has responded quickly and c

minister, to reassure him. no action taken by the north koreans will in any way deter our commitment. japan and the us may have the military might to deter north korea, but they have few other levers to pressure pyongyang. only one country does, and that is china. china was quite literally shaken by the blast. north korea's nuclear test site is only 60 miles from the border. it will have sent a diplomaticjolt, too, coming just before president xi jinping opened this international summit. although he made no direct reference, he warned of the challenges to world peace. on state tv, the message was more blunt, with an official statement strongly condemning the test. there can be little doubt that the government here in beijing is rattled. once again, it has had to order emergency radiation monitoring along the border. but, despite the frustration, as always, it may be reluctant to punish north korea too hard. china has recently been stopping cargoes of coal and seafood, in line with toughened un sanctions. but its biggest fear is not nuclear weapons. it is the chaos that would come wit