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After its 6th nuclear test, North Korea plans another to mark its anniversary
Defiant North Korea led by headstrong leader Kim Jong Un is planning another missile test to mark the country’s founding anniversary on Saturday, days after firing its sixth and largest missile.
As a yearly ritual, Pyongyang marks its founding anniversary with a big display of pageantry and military hardware. Last year, North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test on the Sept. 9 anniversary.
Only yesterday, President Donald Trump of the United States of America warned that an American military strike on North Korea is not inevitable, but it would be “a very sad day” for the Asian nation if it ever came to pass.
Read also: US asks UN to freeze assets of North Korea’s Kim over missile activities
Speaking at a White House news conference after meeting the leader of Kuwait on Thursday, Trump said Pyongyang ‘is behaving badly and it’s got to stop’ as US officials eye policy of nuclear containment.
Trump’s comments came a day after the United States was forced to ask the UN Security Council to freeze the assets of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un.
The move by the US also seeks to slap an oil embargo and textile exports ban on the pariah Asian country in response to Pyongyang’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test.
Kim Jong Un has continued to rattle global financial markets, escalated tensions in the region in defiance of U.N. sanctions amid a brewing standoff with the United States.
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