By Wang Junsheng

January 11, 2016

"After the Democratic People's Republic of Korea claimed on Wednesday it had successfully carried out its first hydrogen bomb test, Beijing immediately expressed its concern and called on all parties to 'get back on the track of resolving the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue through the Six-Party Talks'.

The nuclear test, which Pyongyang said was to 'secure its right for survival against threats from the United States and other countries', was the fourth by the DPRK and the second after the country's top leader Kim Jong-un assumed power over four years ago."

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