The announcement by North Korea of its first nuclear test of an H-bomb will "have consequences" for Pyongyang, warned US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and his South Korean counterpart in a telephone interview.
AFP
North Korea said Wednesday its first test have made a more powerful common atomic bomb as a sign of their determination to advance its nuclear program hydrogen bomb.
After a telephone interview with South Korean Minister Han Min-Koo, "the Carter secretary reaffirmed the strong US commitment to defend (South Korea), which covers all aspects of the policy of deterrence" that has Washington, said the Pentagon said in a statement.
In this regard, Carter and Han felt that the "North Korean provocations will have consequences," says the text.
Carter visited last November in Seoul and the demilitarized zone constituting the de facto border between the two Koreas.
The United States currently has 28,500 troops in South Korea, considered a key US ally in Asia.