N Korea bomb test: US, Japan, S Korea pledge united response

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It looks like North Korea is all set to face strong criticism after it claimed to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, as for latest update the US, South Korea and Japan have joined hands to give a united response to nuclear bomb testing country.

North Korea said it carried out the test on Wednesday – if confirmed it would be its fourth nuclear test, and its first of the more powerful H-bomb.

The UN Security Council has also agreed to start drawing up new measures against North Korea.

But scepticism remains over whether the North really did conduct such a test.

The White House said President Barack Obama had spoken separately to South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

South Korea’s presidential office said in a statement that Park and Obama had agreed to closely co-operate and that the international community “must make sure that North Korea pays the corresponding price” for the nuclear test, reported