clear insult. to date, china has shown no signs of being ready to abandon the north korean dictator. consider the repercussions. if beijing were to cut aid and the regime collapsed, and that s a big if, china would have to deal with millions of refugee on its border, not to mention unsecured nuclear weapons. they would also lose a substantial buffer in its positioning in the region against the u.s. if china continues to prop up the regime, what else can be done to change north korean behavior? major countries in particular countries like china, the united states, and russia, need to get on to the same page as far as the nuclearization issue is concerned on the korean peninsula. and we should avoid the situation where dprk can play the united states against china. reporter: though if the countries agree on new sanctions to try to limit weapons development, it s unclear how effective those would be. what is clear is that with any further diplomatic action, china
from previous attempts at submarine-launched missiles or previous videos that had been released by state media here. however, what is indisputable is the fact that the north koreans are continuing to develop that technology, the technology to miniaturize warheads, place them on missiles, and launch them from submarines or if the ground. and of course or from the ground. and of course the nuclear test this week another troubling layer for the international community, underscoring the fact north korea s military capability does continue to increase in spite of international pressure to stop. of course, there is a lot of skepticism, as well, about whether north korea even tested a hydrogen bomb. what are people in north korea saying? reporter: they believe that their government is telling them. it was front-page news, it was all over television as well as radio, all state controlled, of course. we visited a science center yesterday, spoke with students who spoke with proud about the
ally and has reaffirmed its opposition to pyongyang s nuclear test. for several days, north korea has been celebrating its test. cnn is the only u.s. broadcaster reporting from inside the country. our reporter will ripley joins us from pyongyang. north korea has just aired what it says is a test run of a submarine-launched missile. we know one u.s. think tank claims to have some satellite images which seem to support that, but there is skepticism. reporter: yeah. and that skepticism was raised primarily from the south koreans who often try to dispute north korea s claim when they make a military announcement. for example, the nuclear test, south korea was one of the countries along with china and the u.s. who tried to detect a change in radiation levels which they haven t found so far. in this case, what south korean media have been saying is that it looks like images that north korea released of the submarine-launched missile may have been edited clips of video
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successfully testing a hydrogen bomb. while there s plenty of skepticism in the out world, we ve not found any in pyongyang. given that china is north korea s main trading partner and ally, it has the potential to wield a lot of power. there we know the chinese foreign minister met with his south korean counterparts. do you know if he s reached out to north korean officials? reporter: we don t know at this point what level of communication if any there has been between china and north korea over this particular nuclear test. yes, the two countries do have as far as north korea s vantage point, it is by far their biggest and most important friend. china sent a high-ranking member of their communist party in october, hand delivering a letter from xi jinping to mark a national holiday, the founder s day celebration. china was blind sided by the nuclear test. they were not given advance warning like they were for