Dialogue still the way to resolve nuke crisis

In a televised address on Jan 13, Republic of Korea President Park Geun-hye urged the international community to strongly respond to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's recent claim of testing a hydrogen bomb.

She also said the ROK is discussing with the United States countermeasures to prevent the DPRK from conducting more nuclear tests, and emphasized that her country will impose the strongest sanctions on the DPRK in a bid to force it to change its behavior.

Two days before Park's address, the ROK had already hinted that further US "strategic assets" might be deployed on the Korean Peninsula, following a "flyover by a US B-52 bomber" over Osan Air Base, about 70km south of the inter-Korean border in a show of strength.