The UN Security Council held a closed-door meeting on Friday, strongly condemning the test and agreeing to put new sanctions in place.
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Sung Kim, the US State Department’s special representative for North Korea policy, said Washington and Tokyo would work closely in the Security Council and beyond “to come up with the strongest possible measure against North Korea’s latest action”.
The North Korean government responded Sunday, calling the threats of “meaningless sanctions.highly laughable”. Pyongyang’s claims of being able to miniaturize a nuclear warhead have never been independently verified.
“North Korea will have to bear the consequences of its acts and provocations”, he said, adding that more importantly, new sanctions are “indispensable”.
North Korea’s nuclear test is a unsafe affront to the global community and a serious threat to regional security, says New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon – “I count on the Security Council to remain united and take appropriate action”.
US, France, Britain urge new United Nations sanctions on N. Korea was posted in World of TheNews International – https://www.thenews.com.pk on September 10, 2016 and was last updated on September 10, 2016.
The bomb dropped by the USA on Hiroshima in 1945 had a yield of about 15 kilotonnes.
The pre-emptive planning coincides with South Korean lawmakers and nuclear scientists launching a think tank pushing to arm their country with nuclear weapons after North Korea fired off its fifth and biggest nuclear weapon test yet, Yonghap also reported. Their entire focus has been on tightening sanctions against the impoverished country, which is already under five sets of United Nations sanctions.
It said the test proved North Korea was capable of mounting a nuclear warhead on a medium-range ballistic missile, which it last tested on Monday when Obama and other world leaders were gathered in China for a G20 summit.
North Korea said it conducted a “higher level” nuclear test explosion on Friday that will allow it to finally build an array of stronger, smaller and lighter nuclear weapons.
The newspaper also criticised South Korean President Park Geun-Hye over her condemnation of the North’s ballistic missile test.
Obama reaffirmed, as he has done repeatedly following North Korean ballistic missile launches, the United States commitment to “take necessary steps to defend our allies in the region”, namely South Korea and Japan.
In March, the Security Council adopted its toughest sanctions against North Korea in two decades in response to a nuclear test in January and a rocket launch.
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Estimates of the explosive yield of the latest blast have varied.
