Trump condemns 'rogue nation' North Korea following H-Bomb test

President Trump criticized North Korea in a pair of tweets Sunday, calling the country a "rogue nation" after it said it successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test. (KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS)
 President Trump on Sunday confirmed that North Korea conducted a “major” nuclear test and warned that Kim Jong Un’s country is a “major threat.”
"North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test. Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States," Trump wrote in a tweet.
He added, “North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success."
In another tweet, Trump made a cryptic appeal to South Korea.
North Korea celebrates supposed hydrogen bomb test
“South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!” he wrote, offering no further explanation.
North Korea reported on Sunday that it conducted its sixth nuclear test, which appears to be its most powerful yet.
Following the test, the U.S. Geological Survey reported a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in North Korea. Officials in Seoul detected a 5.7 quake. A South Korean defense official told the country’s Yonhap News Agency that the blast was estimated to be four or five times more powerful than the nuclear explosion in Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.
Trump did not announce any action in response to the test, and the Pentagon said it would not have any repsonse until it finished its assessment of the detonation.
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President Trump criticized North Korea in a pair of tweets Sunday, calling the country a "rogue nation" after it said it successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test. (KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS)
South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!