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1st LD: S. Korean president urges different response to DPRK's nuke test

Xinhua, January 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday urged different responses from the international community to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s fourth nuclear test.

Park said in a national televised speech that the nuclear test was a significant provocation and an intolerable challenge, saying that resuming propaganda broadcasts in frontline areas is the most effective tool of psychological warfare to the provocation.

Her speech came a week after the DPRK claimed last Wednesday that it had successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb.

Two days later, South Korea restarted blaring propaganda messages from loudspeakers across the border into the DPRK in retaliation for the nuclear test. Enditem