South Korea’s military condemns the North’s nuclear test

Record ID: 908704

  • Title: South Korea’s military condemns the North’s nuclear test
  • Date: 3rd September 2017
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (SEPTEMBER 3, 2017) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** SOUTH KOREAN DIRECTOR GENERAL OF OPERATIONS AT JOINT CHIEF OF STAFF (JCS), CHO HAN-KYU, WALKING UP TO PODIUM JOURNALISTS SEATED AND MEDIA SHOOTING (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREAN DIRECTOR GENERAL OF OPERATIONS AT JOINT CHIEF OF STAFF (JCS), CHO HAN-KYU, SAYING: "(Our military) strongly condemns North Korea in conducting ICBM-level missile launches and nuclear tests, even stronger than those conducted in the past, regardless of our government's suggestions to ease military tension and bring peace to the Korean peninsula." JOURNALISTS TYPING (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREAN DIRECTOR GENERAL OF OPERATIONS AT JOINT CHIEF OF STAFF (JCS), CHO HAN-KYU, SAYING: "The South Korea-U.S. alliance, in closest cooperation ever, has all the capability to punish North Korea and we will show our action demonstrating a strong response of the South Korea-U.S. combined forces (against North Korea)."
  • Embargoed: 17th September 2017 10:34
  • Keywords: North Korea nuclear test H-bomb ICBM South Korea military
  • Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • City: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016X1JQYV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: South Korea's military condemned North Korea on Sunday (September 3) after it conducted its sixth nuclear test and vowed a strong response.
    North Korea said its latest test was a successful detonation of an advanced hydrogen bomb, in a dramatic escalation of the isolated state's stand-off with the United States and its allies.
    Japanese and South Korean officials said it was around 10 times more powerful than the tremor picked up after its last test a year ago.
    There was no independent confirmation that the detonation was a hydrogen bomb rather than an atomic device.
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