Donald Trump: Appeasing North Korea 'will not work'

The US President brands the isolated country a "rogue nation" after it conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.

U.S. President Trump speaks during a joint news conference at the White House in Washington

Donald Trump has warned that appeasing North Korea will not work after Pyongyang announced it had tested a hydrogen bomb - its sixth and most powerful nuclear detonation to date.
"They only understand one thing!" the US President added.
Writing on Twitter, Mr Trump said the regime's "words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States".
He also denounced the secretive country as a "rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success".
When asked by reporters whether the US would attack the North, he replied: "We'll see."
The White House said Mr Trump would meet his national security team on Sunday.
North Korea's Korean Central News Agency released this photo of Kim Jong Un inspecting the device
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he would compile a new sanctions package, potentially to cut off all trade with North Korea.
South Korea has called for the "strongest possible" response, including new sanctions from the UN Security Council to "completely isolate" its northern neighbour.
Seoul's national security adviser, Chung Eui Yong, said there had been talks with Washington about deploying US strategic military assets to the Korean peninsula.
Seoul's defence ministry said the US and South Korean military chiefs have spoken on the telephone and agreed the test was "a provocation that cannot be overlooked".
North Korea has been pressing ahead with its weapons programme
The chairmen of the joint chiefs of staff, General Jeong Kyeong Doo and General Joseph Dunford, "agreed to prepare a South Korea-US military counteraction and to put it into action at the earliest date".
China, which is Pyongyang's only major ally, said it strongly condemned the detonation.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin have agreed to "appropriately deal with" the latest test and "stick to the goal of denuclearisation on the Korean Peninsula".
The device is thought to have been about five times larger than the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki in World War II.
Pyongyang said via state media that it had detonated a hydrogen bomb with "perfect success".
It claimed the device could be mounted on its newly developed intercontinental ballistic missiles, which experts have said are capable of reaching the US mainland.
There has been no independent confirmation the detonation was a hydrogen bomb rather than a less powerful atomic weapon of the kind Pyongyang has tested in the past.
Prime Minister Theresa May said the "reckless" nuclear test posed an "unacceptable further threat to the international community".
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said if North Korea managed to fit a hydrogen bomb to a "successful missile" it would "unquestionably present a new order of threat".
Concerning the way ahead, Mr Johnson said that "none of the military options are good".
But on sanctions, he pointed out that China is responsible for 90% of North Korea's trade, adding that Kim Jong Un's nation has only six months of oil supplies left.
He said Britain's message to Beijing was: "We think there's more scope, for you the Chinese, to put economic pressure on the North Koreans."
Japan's foreign minister, Taro Kono, described the new explosion as "extremely unforgivable".
The Tokyo government has registered a protest with the North Korean embassy in Beijing, he said.
Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron are urging tougher EU sanctions.
After speaking on the phone, the German and French leaders said Pyongyang had "reached a new dimension of provocation".
By;Worldcoinsmoney.blogspot.com
NORTH KOREA, UNITED STATES.

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