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Obama says provocative actions by North Korea will have serious consequences

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday any provocative actions by North Korea would have "serious consequences" after the reclusive North confirmed it had conducted its fifth nuclear test, Reuters reported.

Obama says provocative actions by North Korea will have serious consequences

Obama says provocative actions by North Korea will have serious consequences

STEPANAKERT, SEPTEMBER 9, ARTSAKHPRESS: Obama had been briefed on board Air Force One by National Security Adviser Susan Rice about reported seismic activity near North Korea's nuclear test site earlier on Friday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.

Obama reiterated the unbreakable U.S. commitment to the security of its allies in Asia and around the world, Earnest said.

Earlier BBC reported North Korea has successfully carried out its fifth nuclear test.

The test was first detected as a 5.3 magnitude earthquake on Friday morning in north-east North Korea, close to its Punggye-ri underground nuclear test site.

As with previous nuclear tests, the waveform generated indicated it had not been naturally occurring.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff later said the detonation had a yield of about 10 kilotonnes, making it the North's "strongest nuclear test ever".

That is almost twice the power of its last test in January, which Pyongyang said at the time had been a hydrogen bomb. Many analysts cast doubt on that claim. The bomb dropped by the US on Hiroshima in 1945 had a yield of about 15 kilotonnes.


     

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