Donald Trump condemns ‘hostile and dangerous’ North Korea

Donald Trump has condemned an apparent nuclear test by North Korea as ‘hostile and dangerous’ after the secretive state said it had performed a ‘perfect’ explosion of its most powerful weapon yet.

“Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States,” Mr Trump said in a tweet hours after the blast caused condemnation around the world.

“North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success,” he added.

“South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!”