Obama proposes tough response to DPRK nuclear test

Before attending the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landing, U.S. President Barack Obama held a meeting with French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy in Normandy.

The two leaders expressed unity in dealing with issues relate to the Middle East, Iran and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

US President Barack Obama (L) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy  attend a bilateral meeting at the Prefecture of Caen. Obama said  Saturday that North Korea's nuclear weapon test had been  "extraordinarily provocative" and that it would be "profoundly  dangerous" for Iran to get a nuclear bomb.(AFP/POOL/Stephane de Sakutin)

Obama indicated that the DPRK's recent actions have been testing the limit of his patience. The US president says there should be a new and stronger response to the recent nuclear test by Pyongyang.

Barack Obama said, "We will continue to consult with all the parties who previously have been involved in the six party talks but we are going to take a very hard look at how we move forward on these issues, and I don't think that there should be an assumption that we will simply continue down a path in which North Korea is constantly destabilizing the region and we just react in the same ways by, after they've done these things for a while, then we reward them."