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		</div><p>The United Nations has strongly condemned North Korea&#8217;s latest nuclear test and promised new measures against Pyongyang.</p>
<p>North Korea said it had conducted a &#8220;higher level&#8221; nuclear test explosion that will allow it to build an array of stronger, smaller and lighter nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>The North&#8217;s fifth atomic test and the second in eight months brought the UN&#8217;s most powerful body into emergency session, three days after it strongly condemned Pyongyang&#8217;s latest ballistic missile launches.</p>
<p>UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said reducing tensions on the Korean peninsula is one of the most serious issues facing the world because the impact of North Korea&#8217;s use of nuclear weapons would be far greater than the casualties in Syria and other conflicts.</p>
<p>He said that for almost 10 years as UN chief, and before that as South Korea&#8217;s foreign minister, he had tried with &#8220;all my efforts &#8230; to talk with North Koreans in any way I can to promote peace and security and reconciliation between the South and the North&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;But I regret to tell you that it has not been materialised because of many different situations, mainly caused by North Koreans&#8217; provocative actions,&#8221; Mr Ban said.</p>
<p>Now, he said, &#8220;we are coming to almost this confrontational situation&#8221;.</p>
<p>South Korea&#8217;s president said the detonation, which Seoul estimated was the North&#8217;s biggest in explosive yield, was an act of &#8220;fanatic recklessness&#8221; and a sign that leader Kim Jong Un &#8220;is spiralling out of control&#8221;.</p>
<p>President Barack Obama condemned the test and said the US would never accept the country as a nuclear power.</p>
<p>North Korea&#8217;s boast of a technologically game-changing test defied tough international sanctions and long-standing diplomatic pressure to curb its nuclear ambitions.</p>
<p>It will raise serious worries in many world capitals that North Korea has moved another step closer to its goal of a nuclear-armed missile that could one day strike the US mainland.</p>
<p>A press statement agreed on by all 15 UN Security Council members said diplomats will draft a new resolution in response to its earlier promise to take &#8220;further significant measures&#8221; if the North continues to defy the international community.</p>
<p>&#8220;In line with this commitment and the gravity of this violation, the members of the Security Council will begin to work immediately on appropriate measures&#8221; in a new UN resolution, the statement said.</p>
<p>The measures will be under Article 41 of the UN Charter, which specifies non-military actions including sanctions.</p>
<p>US ambassador Samantha Power said the council must use &#8220;every tool at its disposal&#8221; including new sanctions &#8220;to demonstrate to North Korea that there are consequences for its unlawful and dangerous actions&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is more than brazen defiance,&#8221; Ms Power told reporters at the UN headquarters. &#8220;North Korea is seeking to perfect its nuclear weapons and their delivery vehicles so they can hold the region and the world hostage under threat of nuclear strikes.&#8221;</p>
<p>What measures are included in a new resolution will largely depend on China, the North&#8217;s major ally and neighbour which fears any instability on the Korean peninsula.</p>
<p>&#8220;All sides should refrain from mutual provocations and any actions that might be a threat to peace and security,&#8221; China&#8217;s UN ambassador Liu Jieyi said after the meeting.</p>
<p>&#8220;We believe it is more urgent than ever to work together to achieve de-nuclearisation of the Korean peninsula (and) &#8220;to prevent proliferation and &#8230; maintain peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.&#8221;</p>
<figure id="attachment_87690" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-87690" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/KimJongUnJan16_large.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/KimJongUnJan16_large.jpg" alt="North Korean leader kim Jong Un" width="600" height="325" class="size-full wp-image-87690" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-87690" class="wp-caption-text">North Korean leader Kim Jong Un</figcaption></figure>
<p>In March, the Security Council adopted its toughest sanctions against North Korea in two decades in response to a nuclear test in January and a rocket launch. It took two months of negotiations mainly between the US and China.</p>
<p>South Korea&#8217;s UN ambassador Oh Joon said he hopes agreement on a new resolution will come quickly.</p>
<p>Hours after South Korea noted unusual seismic activity near North Korea&#8217;s north-eastern nuclear test site, the North said in its state-run media that a test had &#8220;finally examined and confirmed the structure and specific features of movement of (a) nuclear warhead that has been standardised to be able to be mounted on strategic ballistic rockets&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;The standardisation of the nuclear warhead will enable (North Korea) to produce at will and as many as it wants a variety of smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear warheads of higher strike power. This has definitely put on a higher level (the North&#8217;s) technology of mounting nuclear warheads on ballistic rockets.&#8221;</p>
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