BERN, Switzerland, Sept. 5 -- Switzerland said Monday that it was ready to mediate over the tense situation on the Korean Peninsula, as the United States and South Korea intend to mount pressure.

Swiss President Doris Leuthard said Monday that Switzerland was ready to act as a mediator and use its special role in international diplomacy to host talks to help solve the current tensions, which were escalated after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) conducted its sixth nuclear test.

"We live now for many years with sanctions. It did not change many things," Leuthard told a press conference in Bern hosted by the Foreign Press Association of Switzerland and Lichtenstein when being asked if more sanctions against the DPRK were the answer to the tense situation.

"The population suffers for all these sanctions, but they stay with their government,... So, I think, it is really time for dialogue," Leuthard said.

"We are ready to offer our good services now as a mediator," she said, noting that Switzerland has hosted peace talks on Syria and other conflicts.

Meanwhile, Leuthard cautioned that overactions would be dangerous.

"It is really time now to sit at a table... Switzerland and Sweden can have a role behind the curtain," she said, adding that they have done so before.

She noted that an "international, political and reliable solution" should be found, saying: "That is in the interests of the whole planet."

The DPRK launched its sixth and largest nuclear test on Sunday in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, which has been widely condemned by the international community.

On Tuesday, South Korea's navy conducted a massive live-fire drill in an apparent show of force following the DPRK's nuclear test.