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>> north korea conducted additional missile launches and it's second nuclear test. that lead to resolution 1874 which expanded sanctions including an arms embargo and cargo inspection obligations. in 2012 the deal failed and north korea conducted two new space launches. the security council responded with the adoption of resolution 2087. following the third test the council adopted resolution 2094 expanding sanctions to restrict financial, maratime aviation and diplomatic activities. by 2016 north korea conducted it's 4th nuclear test and another space launch. they followed that with more

Regime, but that would mean cutting off trade with china, one of the u.s.'s biggest trading partners. it would have huge political and financial implications and critics are calling it a threat. >> athina jones, thank you very much. i also want to bring in senior correspondent will ripley. he recently returned from his 14th trip to north korea. will, help us understand why the regime would prepare another icbm test just hours after its biggest nuclear test? >> reporter: this is all about messaging for the north koreans, pamela. remember, they launched that intercontinental ballistic missile ov...

Minutes. what's significant here is this is the first time that the u.s. president and south korean president have spoken and it's been 30 plus hours since the hydrogen bomb test by north korea. first time they have spoken since that. >> that's right. that has not exactly gone unnoticed here in south korea. as you can imagine one of the focuses as well was the fact that the u. s. president had spoken twice in 24 hours to japan's leader shinzo abe and there were questions as to why the south korean president was not being spoken to as well but certainly that has now been rectified. we did hear ...

The war plan that kim jong-un it into place when he went into power. those have a high success rate. those in development, similar to the failures the u.s. had, the ones in development have failures until now they've been achieving far greater successes. in the last two years they've had breakthroughs in their submarine launched missiles, two different intermediate range missiles and then a successful two for two icbm test in july. and now a thermonuclear or hydrogen bomb. >> is believed to be the most powerful, there was a test in september of 2016. they thought the yield there was ten to 20 ...

Legacy and create his own legacy. that's not the way leadership should be. >> i had a follow up for selena. i can't ask it because we need to get to the un. you're looking at china's ambassador to the united nations speaking on north korea. >> translator: disregarded the provisions of the security council conducted once again the nuclear test. the chinese government opposes and strongly condemns the nuclear test in violation of the un security council resolutions. achieving the denuclearization of the korean peninsula and maintaining the system and peace and stability in northeast asia this is...