UN chief slams North Korea nuclear test, Security Council meets
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UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called North Korea's fourth nuclear test "deeply troubling" and "profoundly destabilizing for regional security," and diplomats said the Security Council would have to consider new sanctions steps.
"This test once again violates numerous Security Council resolutions despite the united call by the international community to cease such activities," the United Nations chief told reporters. "It is also a grave contravention of the international norm against nuclear testing."
"I demand the DPRK (North Korea) cease any further nuclear activities and meet its obligations for verifiable denuclearization," he said.
North Korea said it had successfully conducted a test of a miniaturized hydrogen nuclear device on Wednesday morning, marking a significant advance in the isolated state's strike capabilities and ringing alarm bells in Japan and South Korea.
