The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss an international response to North Koreas nuclear test
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 3, 2017 - The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Monday (Sep 4) to discuss an international response to North Korea's nuclear test, diplomats said.
The United States, Britain, France, Japan and South Korea requested the urgent meeting to be held at 10.00am (10.00pm Singapore time), said the US mission in a statement.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday condemned North Korea's nuclear test as 'profoundly destabilizing' for regional security and again urged Pyongyang to halt such acts.
The UN condemnation came after North Korea detonated what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb able to fit atop a missile.
'This act is yet another serious breach of the DPRK's international obligations and undermines international non-proliferation and disarmament efforts,' Guterres said in a statement.
'This act is also profoundly destabilizing for regional security. The DPRK is the only country that continues to break the norm against nuclear test explosions.'
Guterres called on Pyongyang to 'cease such acts and to comply fully with its international obligations.'
UN Security Council resolutions bar North Korea from carrying out nuclear and missile tests.
In Washington, US President Donald Trump was convening his national security team on Sunday to weigh options including drastic economic sanctions against North Korea.
The US president said in a tweet that the time for 'appeasement' was over, and a top adviser said Trump was weighing 'all our options.'
'The national security team is monitoring this closely,' said White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in announcing the urgent meeting on a US holiday weekend.
In a Twitter message, Trump denounced the unexpectedly powerful test - said to be the North's first blast to exceed in magnitude the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan - as 'very hostile and dangerous to the United States.'
The United States, Britain, France, Japan and South Korea requested the urgent meeting to be held at 10.00am (10.00pm Singapore time), said the US mission in a statement.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday condemned North Korea's nuclear test as 'profoundly destabilizing' for regional security and again urged Pyongyang to halt such acts.
The UN condemnation came after North Korea detonated what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb able to fit atop a missile.
'This act is yet another serious breach of the DPRK's international obligations and undermines international non-proliferation and disarmament efforts,' Guterres said in a statement.
'This act is also profoundly destabilizing for regional security. The DPRK is the only country that continues to break the norm against nuclear test explosions.'
Guterres called on Pyongyang to 'cease such acts and to comply fully with its international obligations.'
UN Security Council resolutions bar North Korea from carrying out nuclear and missile tests.
In Washington, US President Donald Trump was convening his national security team on Sunday to weigh options including drastic economic sanctions against North Korea.
The US president said in a tweet that the time for 'appeasement' was over, and a top adviser said Trump was weighing 'all our options.'
'The national security team is monitoring this closely,' said White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in announcing the urgent meeting on a US holiday weekend.
In a Twitter message, Trump denounced the unexpectedly powerful test - said to be the North's first blast to exceed in magnitude the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan - as 'very hostile and dangerous to the United States.'
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