Also Tuesday, Ban Ki-moon, the next United Nations secretary-general and South Korea’s foreign minister said Seoul backs the sanctions.
US does not detect second nuclear test
Seoul: The US military has detected no signs of North Korea preparing a second nuclear test, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported today.
US military officials gave that intelligence assessment to their South Korean counterparts during annual defence talks in Washington last week, Yonhap said, citing unidentified defence officials. Officials at the Defence Ministry were not immediately available for comment.
North Korea undertook its first-ever nuclear test on October 9 and has threatened to take further “physical measures