WASHINGTON
(AP) -- Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday shot back at North
Korea's claimed test of a hydrogen bomb with a blunt threat, saying the
U.S. will answer any threat from the North with a "massive military
response — a response both effective and overwhelming." Earlier,
President Donald Trump threatened to halt all trade with countries doing
business with the North, a veiled warning to China, and faulted South
Korea for its "talk of appeasement."
The
tough talk from America's commander in chief and the retired Marine
general he picked to oversee the Pentagon came as the Trump
administration searched for a response to the escalating crisis. Kim
Jong Un's regime on Sunday claimed "perfect success" in an underground
test of what it called a hydrogen bomb. It was the North's sixth nuclear
test since 2006 — the first since Trump took office in January — and
involved a device potentially vastly more powerful than a nuclear bomb.
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