Asia tour: Obama in Seoul promise on N Korea

Obama: "Dangers will get North Korea nothing other than more excellent disconnection"

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US President Barack Obama said America stood "shoulder to shoulder" with South Korea over North Korean incitement, as he proceeded his Asia tour.

Mr Obama, who landed from Japan, spoke in the wake of holding converses with South Korean pioneer Park Geun-hye.

His visit comes in the middle of concerns North Korea could be wanting to lead a fourth atomic test, emulating reports of action at its atomic test site.

Mr Obama likewise communicated his sympathies over a week ago ship debacle.

More than 300 individuals were murdered or remain absent after the Sewol traveler ship sank off South Korea, in a disaster that has stunned the country. The greater part of the individuals who passed on were teens on a school excursion.

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Obama's Asia tour

 23 Apr: Arrives Tokyo (evening) for supper with Japanese PM Shinzo Abe

 24 Apr: In Tokyo; talks and joint question and answer session with Abe, state supper

 25 Apr: Flies Tokyo-Seoul; talks and question and answer session with South Korean President Park Geun-hye

 26 Apr: Visit to army installation; travels to Kuala Lumpur and state supper

 27 Apr: Talks with Malaysian PM Najib Razak, public interview

 28 Apr: Flies to Manila, banters with Philippine President Benigno Aquino

 29 Apr: Ends visit to Philippines, comes back to US

"I am a father of two little girls near the same time of the individuals who were lost. I can just envision what those folks are experiencing," he said.

He brought with him a magnolia tree from White House, which he said he was exhibiting to the people's secondary school to remember "the delightful lives lost".

'Huge issue'

And in addition converses with Ms Park, Mr Obama will visit US troops and afterward travel to Malaysia on Saturday.

When he touched down in Seoul, he called the North Korean issue "the most destabilizing, hazardous circumstance in the greater part of the Asia-Pacific district".

Not long ago, South Korea's military said it had caught "a ton of action" at the North's atomic test site, recommending it was either arranging a test or might profess to stage one.

A report from 38 North, the site of the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, likewise affirmed expanded action at the site "likely identified with arrangements for an explosion", dependent upon satellite symbolism.

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North Korean atomic tests

 Three underground atomic tests have been done by North Korea, in 2006, 2009 and 2013

 The initial two tests were accepted to have utilized plutonium, however it is not clear whether the third test utilized uranium as the fissile material

 North Korea is thought to have enough atomic material for a little number of shells, however not the innovation to make an atomic warhead

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North Korea has done three such tests previously, most as of late in February 2013.

All brought about the burden of authorizations by the UN, which obstructs Pyongyang from atomic tests under determination 1718.

Talking in Seoul, Mr Obama said incitements by Pyongyang would just prompt further disconnection.

"The US and South Korea stand shoulder to shoulder, both in face of Pyongyang's incitements and our refusal to acknowledge an atomic North Korea."

He said both he was supported that Beijing - accepted to have the most impact on Pyongyang - was starting to distinguish that North Korea was "an aggravation as well as a critical issue to their own particular security".

Furthermore he said that in light of "what we hope to be further incitements" as rocket or atomic tests, he and Ms Park had consented to search for extra approaches to apply weight on Pyongyang.

As far as it matters for her, Ms Park said throughout their joint question and answer session: "When North Korea is debilitating further incitements and freely talking about the likelihood of a further atomic test, President Obama's visit to South Korea will send a firm message that North Korea's incitements won't go on without serious consequences."

While Pyongyang has tried gadgets, it is not yet accepted to have beaten the procedure of making an atomic warhead little enough to convey by means of a rocket.