DPRK's nuke test threatens regional stability
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.
On the one hand, it indicates the national resolve to realize Pyongyang's nuclear strategy, after it was included in the country's revised Constitution in 2012 for the first time, and served to help celebrate certain domestic political events, including Kim's birthday.
