US defense chief threatens massive military response if North Korea attacks; UN Security Council to meet

Highlights

1
Mattis threatened "effective and overwhelming" response

2
"We'll see," Trump said when asked if US would attack North Korea

3
N Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sunday

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday threatened a "massive military response" to any attack on the United States or its allies after North Korea conducted its most powerful nuclear test to date.
Speaking outside the White House, Mattis said: "Any threat to the United States or its territories, including Guam or our allies will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming."
Mattis said Washington was not looking for the "total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea. But as I said, we have many options to do so."
Earlier, President Donald Trump, asked if he would attack North Korea, said, "We'll see."
He also suggested squeezing China, the North's patron for many decades and a vital US trading partner, on the economic front, in hopes of persuading Beijing to exert leverage on its neighbor. Trump tweeted that the US is considering "stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea."
The United States is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea.

- Donald J. Trump  September 3, 2017
SIXTH TEST
North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test on Sunday, which it said was an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile.
It was the first test since Trump took office in January.
The precise strength of the explosion, described by state-controlled media in North Korea as a hydrogen bomb, has yet to be determined. South Korea's weather agency said the artificial earthquake caused by the explosion was five times to six times stronger than tremors generated by the North's previous five such tests.
The impact reportedly shook buildings in China and in Russia.
UN SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET
The United Nations Security Council will meet at 7:30 pm (IST) on Monday on North Korea's nuclear test at the request of the United States, Japan, Britain, France and South Korea, the US mission to the United Nations said in a statement on Sunday.
We along w/Japan, France, the UK and S.Korea have called for an emergency Security Council meeting on N.Korea in the open tomorrow at 10am

-
India said it "deplores" North Korea's latest nuclear test, calling it a "matter of deep concern that DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] has once again acted in violation of its international commitments."