Seoul — North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sunday, which it said was an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, marking a dramatic escalation of the regime’s stand-off with the US and its allies. The test drew swift international condemnation, including from US President Donald Trump, who described North Korea as a "rogue nation" and said its actions "continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the US". "Appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing," he said in messages on Twitter. The White House said Trump’s national security team was "monitoring this closely" and the president was to convene a meeting of his advisers later on Sunday. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who met on the sidelines of a Brics summit in China, agree to "appropriately deal" with the North Korean nuclear test, the Xinhua news agency reported. Hours before the test, Trump had talked by phone with Japanese...
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