North Korea's 6th nuclear test challenges Trump, sends signal to China
BEIJING _ North Korea's claim that it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb raised the stakes Sunday in its escalating confrontation with neighbors across northeast Asia, and with a U.S. administration that is increasingly running out of good options.
Japan and South Korea's leaders condemned the latest sign that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, unfazed by strict United Nations sanctions and international condemnation, has accelerated the country's nuclear and missile development with astonishing success.
President Donald Trump denounced it as "very hostile and dangerous to the United States."
But Chinese officials met an even more sobering reality _ that Beijing, Pyongyang's top ally and trading partner,
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