The 15 council members will meet at 3:00 pm (1900 GMT) for urgent consultations, at the request of the United States and Japan, said the New Zealand mission.
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South Korea’s foreign minister said on Saturday that North Korea’s nuclear capability has reached a “considerable level”, echoing the alarm aired around the world over the isolated state’s fifth nuclear test brazenly defying 10 years of United Nations sanctions.
Analysts believe that North Koreans do have the ability to cause significant harm by using nuclear weapons and that the only thing they must develop is the sufficient missile technology in order to deliver the warhead with enough accuracy.
She added: “We will take additional significant steps, including new sanctions to demonstrate to North Korea that there are consequences to its unlawful and unsafe actions”.
But since that measure was adopted, North Korea has carried out 21 ballistic missile launches, United States ambassador Samantha Power said.
Search for traces of radionuclide or radioactive materials like xenon has been launched by South Korea and the U.S. Saturday after North Korea confirmed it successfully carried out a fifth nuclear test, the South’s military officials told Yonhap News Agency.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye called the latest detonation an act of “fanatic recklessness” on the part of the government of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who has overseen three nuclear tests since he took power in late 2011.
Earlier in the day, South Korea, the US and Japan also held a three-party video conference to discuss ways to beef up cooperative measures and the mutual exchange of information regarding North Korea.
Ban told AP the answer should be for North Korea to change its attitudes, reverse course, work with the global community which is calling for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, and respect globally recognized worldwide rules and principles.
The paper called her a “dirty prostitute” of foreign forces and said she was “groundlessly taking issue with the DPRK over its just measures for bolstering nuclear deterrence for self-defence”.
At the emergency meeting, the leaders discussed the sanctions the UN Security Council can impose under article 41 of the UN Charter, which deals with security violations.
Friday in NY, she called for a “rethinking of the strategy” and, in an area of agreement with Trump, pushed an urgent effort to convince China to rein North Korea in.
North Korea is a very poor country and has much less to work with than, for instance, the United States and Soviet Union did in their nascent nuclear stages.
Trump laid out a position on North Korea as early as 1999 in a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled, “America Needs a President Like Me”.
“(North Korea) is a dangerous state – dangerous, not lunatic – and fully intent upon becoming more dangerous still”, Eberstadt said.
Senior officials from Pyongyang were in both capitals this week.
China is also angry at Washington and Seoul for a decision to place an advanced anti-missile system in South Korea, saying it threatens China’s security and won’t help bring North Korea back to the negotiating table.
“Now, I am full of confidence that if the enemies make any little provocations we will make a counter attack and we will surely win”, said Rim Jong Su, 42.
South Korea’s United Nations ambassador Oh Joon said he hopes agreement on a new resolution will come quickly.
The North also boasted that the test was of a nuclear warhead that could be mounted on a missile.
The isolated communist nation has been subjected to five sets of UN sanctions since its first test in 2006.
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During a phone conversation with Han late Friday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter stressed the “ironclad” alliance among the U.S. and its allies including South Korea, pointing at various means such as the nuclear umbrella, traditional deterrents and missile defense measures that can deter North Korean nuclear ambitions, according to the defense ministry here.
