Pyongyang

U.S. President Barack Obama has said that North Korea's fifth nuclear test "will have serious consequences."

The newspaper Guardian is reporting this on its website quoting Reuters, and adding that Obama was briefed about Pyongyang's actions by his advisers after returning from the the G20 and ASEAN meetings.

North Korea on Sept. 5 fired three suspected medium-range Rodong missiles that travelled about 1,000 kilometers and landed near Japan in an apparent show of force timed to the G-20 economic summit in China, Seoul officials said.

The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, turned to be an unexpected ally of the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, since through North Korean state media he called him “wise politician” and “far-sighted candidate” who could help unify the Korean peninsula.

DICTATOR Kim Jong-un has banned all weddings and funerals in North Korea as the tyrannical leader tightens his grip on the secretive state.
The tubby leader is preparing for his own coronation party as the reclusive nation gets set to host its first congress in a whopping 36 years.

The UN Security Council echoed international condemnation April 24 of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test by North Korea, while US President Barack Obama dismissed Pyongyang's offer of a nuclear moratorium.    

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un hailed a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test as an "eye-opening success", state media said April 24, declaring Pyongyang has the ability to strike Seoul and the U.S. whenever it pleases.
 
The launch on April 23 came amid growing concern that Pyongyang is preparing a fifth nuclear test.
 

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye's ruling conservative party, Saenuri, was reeling April 14 from a shock electoral defeat that broke its 16-year parliamentary majority and threatened its chances of retaining the presidential Blue House in 2017.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and G7 foreign ministers on April 11 called for a "world without nuclear weapons," citing North Korea's saber-rattling as a key challenge to achieving that goal.

Leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered North Korea's nuclear arsenal to be readied for pre-emptive use at any time, in an expected escalation of military rhetoric following the UN Security Council's adoption of tough new sanctions on Pyongyang.
 

North Korea fired six short-range projectiles into the sea March 3 in a show of defiance just hours after the United Nations adopted the toughest sanctions to date on Pyongyang over its fourth nuclear test and rocket launch, and South Korean President Park Geun-hye vowed to "end tyranny" by the North's leader.