Britain censures N. Korea’s nuke test

The condemnation came after Pyongyang confirmed it had successfully carried out a third underground nuclear test.

“North Korea’s development of its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities poses a threat to international and regional security.
Its repeated provocations only serve to increase regional tension, and hinder the prospects for lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula”, Hague said.

“The UK will begin urgent consultations with security council partners calling for a robust response to this latest development,” he said.

“North Korea has a choice to make – it can either engage constructively with the international community, cease developing its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes and return to negotiations, or face increasing isolation and further action by the security council and the international community”, Hague added.

According to state media reports, North Korea had successfully detonated a “miniaturised” nuclear device in a “safe manner” at a test site in the north east of the country.

The report said the “test was aimed at coping with outrageous US hostility that violently undermined the North’s peaceful, sovereign rights to launch satellites”.

The United States Geological Survey said yesterday that it had detected a 4.9 magnitude earthquake in North Korea.

The nuclear test is North Korea’s first since leader Kim Jong Un took power in December 2011 following the death of his father, Kim Jong Il.

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Source Article from http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/12/288600/nuke-test/

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