SEOUL: South Korea's national security adviser has said he and his counterparts from the United States and Japan have agreed there will be no soft response if North Korea conducts a nuclear test, Yonhap news agency reported on Friday .
Kim Sung-han made the comment in Hawaii where he held trilateral talks with US national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Akiba Takeo of Japan amid signs the North has completed preparations to conduct its first nuclear test since 2017. "If North Korea conducts its seventh nuclear test, the response will be clearly different from the past," Kim told reporters on Thursday after the trilateral talks, according to Yonhap.
"We have agreed there should never be such a complacent thinking or response that North Korea has conducted just another nuclear test in addition to the six tests it did," Kim was quoted as saying.In mid-August, North Korea
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