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

(Image credit: Twitter.com/Reuters)

last updated 6 January 2016

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.

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."

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Explore More

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Subscribe to The Week

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

Sign up for Today's Best Articles in your inbox