The GOP field responded in typical fashion to North Korea's latest nuclear claim: "Thanks, Obama."
Republican White House candidates rushed to blast President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, blaming them for the dictatorship's claims that it has successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb.
"I have been warning throughout this campaign that North Korea is run by a lunatic who has been expanding his nuclear arsenal while President Obama stood idly by," Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said in a statement, calling it "just the latest example of the failed Obama-Clinton foreign policy."
Former HP executive Carly Fiorina punched even harder.
"Of course North Korea would conduct a nuclear test after watching Iran willfully violate an agreement they just made without consequence of any kind from this administration," she wrote on Facebook. "North Korea is yet another Hillary Clinton foreign policy failure. America cannot lead from behind."
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) piled on via Twitter.
North Korean nuke test https://t.co/zNW3xU9cZD shows danger of continuing feckless Obama/Clinton foreign policy.— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) January 6, 2016
The GOP's less hawkish voices slammed Obama as well — though they said China would need to be part of the solution.
Donald Trump said on Fox News Wednesday morning that China had "total control" over North Korea and needs to be pressured to help.
"China should solve that problem. And if they don't solve the problem, we should make trade very difficult for China," he said.
And libertarian-leaning Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) warned on CNN that there are "no easy solutions" to North Korea's oppressive regime, before saying the U.S. should work with regional powers like China to handle the situation.
"The one thing we have in our favor is that socialism is an abysmal failure," he said.
U.S. government officials have yet to say whether or not intelligence suggest North Korea's claims are true. A magnitude-5.1 seismic event was registered by the U.S. Geological Survey near previous nuclear test sites, but the Obama administration hasn't confirmed if it appears that a bomb was indeed tested successfully.