South Korea: North Korea's 'provocation' is a 'serious challenge to international peace and security'

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The U.N. Security Council will meet Wednesday morning in New York to discuss North Korea's claim that it tested a hydrogen bomb, two diplomats told CNN.

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South Korea's vice foreign minister, Lim Sung-nam, said during an emergency meeting that North Korea's "provocation is in clear violation of Security Council resolutions and a serious challenge to international peace and security." Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned the alleged test, saying it was a "serious threat" to Japan's security and "clearly violates the UNSC resolution and is a serious challenge to the nuclear non-proliferation efforts."

A U.S. official told CNN it could take several days to acquire enough data to determine if North Korea did in fact conduct a successful underground hydrogen bomb test. Previous nuclear tests have used plutonium weapons.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.