Time for Obama to fire off a sternly worded letter...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea conducted its third
nuclear test on Tuesday in defiance of existing U.N. resolutions,
angering the United States and Japan and prompting its only major ally,
China, to call for calm.
The North said the test had "greater explosive force"
than the 2006 and 2009 tests that were widely seen as small-scale. Its
KCNA news agency said it had used a "miniaturized" and lighter nuclear
device, indicating that it had again used plutonium which is more
suitable for use as a missile warhead.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the third of his line
to rule the country, has presided over two long-range rocket launches
and a nuclear test during his first a year in power, pursuing policies
that have propelled his impoverished and malnourished country closer to
becoming a nuclear weapons power.
U.S. President Barack Obama labeled the test a "highly
provocative act" that hurt regional stability and he and other states
that are members of U.N. Security Council pressed for new sanctions on
the isolated country.
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