Seoul seeks Russian support to resolve nuclear crisis

Russian Federation condemns North Korea's nuclear test as "provocative", Putin told a televised news conference in China.

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting Monday that the United States wants a new U.N. resolution with tougher sanctions adopted by September 11.

US President Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday that he would allow Japan and South Korea to buy more "highly sophisticated" US military equipment.

Pyongyang appears determined to continue its nuclear bomb and missile tests until it is confident it could strike the United States, while Trump - who spoke with Malcolm Turnbull this morning - is committed to stopping Kim Jong-un's progress.

"Advances in the regime's nuclear and missile programame are a threat to us all. now is the time to say tests, threats and destabilising actions will no longer be tolerated", Wood said.

Asked about a possible oil embargo or ban on North Koreans working overseas, he said: "We wouldn't like to see the ordinary people, the citizens of North Korea, suffering for what the leadership is doing". The move was met with outrage at the United Nations, where diplomats convened Monday for an emergency session of the security council.

(Russian) "Russia does not recognize and will never recognize North Korea as a nuclear state".

"However, I am concerned cutting off oil supplies to North Korea may cause damage to people in hospitals or other ordinary citizens, " Putin added, according Yoon's briefing to reporters.

In addition to the drill, South Korea will cooperate with the United States and seek to deploy "strategic assets like aircraft carriers and strategic bombers", Jang Kyoung-soo, acting deputy minister of national defence policy, said.

The White House is stressing the USA and Chinese leaders' joint commitment to ridding the Korean Peninsula of nuclear weapons.

Captain Choi Young-Chan, commander of the 13th Maritime Battle Group, said: "If the enemy launches a provocation above water or underwater, we will immediately hit back to bury them at sea".

North Korea says it needs to develop its weapons to defend itself against what it sees as United States aggression.

Australians on holidays or working in Asia have been warned to monitor the North Korea crisis closely with fears tensions could rise.

"The DPRK has broken the global norm against nuclear test explosions", Guterres said at the U.N. Headquarters in NY.

"I think the chance of war, the prospects of war or the risk of war, is great than it's been since the end of the Korean War", he said.

The Russian leader, speaking in China on Tuesday, condemned the latest nuclear test as provocative, but said Russia views sanctions on North Korea as "useless and ineffective".

North Korea conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test on Sunday.

North Korea on Sunday detonated what it described as a hydrogen bomb designed for a long-range missile, calling the test "a flawless success".

Russian Federation and China, who routinely disapprove imposing sanctions on Pyongyang, have recently urged the United States and South Korea to end all joint military exercises, in exchange for North Korea ending its nuclear and missile testing program.

SHAPIRO: Just last week, North Korea fired a missile over Japan.