Washington, Tokyo and Seoul promise an “unparalleled” response should Pyongyang conduct a nuclear test

The United States, the United States, Japan and South Korea have promised an “unprecedented” response if North Korea conducts its seventh nuclear test.

Washington and its allies believe that “North Korea could resume testing nuclear bombs for the first time since 2017”.

“We agreed that an unprecedented response would be needed if North Korea went ahead with a seventh nuclear test,” South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong said at a press conference in Tokyo.

Zhou was speaking with his Japanese and US counterparts, Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Takeo Mori and US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman.

Sherman urged North Korea to “refrain from further provocation”, calling them “reckless actions that destabilize the region”.

North Korea is conducting weapons tests at an unprecedented rate this year, launching more than 20 ballistic missiles, one of which flew over Japan.

North Korea has declared itself at the legislative level a nuclear stateand gave North Korean leader Kim Jong Un the right to dispose of nuclear weapons.

Last July, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un confirmed that his country was “ready to mobilize” its nuclear deterrent in the event of a military conflict with the United States or South Korea.

And last Tuesday, North Korea and South Korea exchanged warning shots On the maritime border between them. North Korea announced that it had returned fire from South Korea by firing from grenade launchers.

North Korea, first, A simulation of a tactical nuclear attack Under the supervision of the North Korean leader. Short-range ballistic missiles were launchedand hundreds of artillery shells near the heavily armed border between the two Koreas.