Obama administration greets fourth test in a decade with normal approach of ‘strategic patience’,as Republicans once again call for harsher measuresBarack Obama’s administration has greeted North Koreas fourth nuclear test in a decade with the same mix of condemnation, exasperation and pleas for collective action prompted by Pyongyang’s previous nuclear detonations.
Once again, and US officials said they refused to accept North Korea as a nuclear state even though two decades of diplomacy,sanctions, and threats maintain failed to reverse the country’s nuclear programme.
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Source: theguardian.com