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World in anger feels North Korea nuclear threat

protesters burn north korean flags beside a mock north korean missile

The world condemns North Korea after the regime announced it had tested a nuclear device which is reported to have been as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

In defiance of international warnings, North Korea said Monday that it carried out the powerful underground nuclear test.

The regime ‘successfully conducted one more underground nuclear test on May 25 as part of measures to bolster its nuclear deterrent for self-defense,’ the country"s official Korean Central News Agency said.

The announcement, coupled with reports of an apparent test-firing of three short-range missiles, sparked outrage around the globe.

The UN Security Council called an emergency meeting to discuss the issue.

‘I sincerely hope that the Security Council will take necessary corresponding measures,’ UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told The Associated Press.

Chinese Foreign Ministry said Beijing is resolutely opposed to the nuclear test, while Russia condemned the test and called on Pyongyang to return to talks aimed at curbing the country"s nuclear arsenal.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said his country opposed the test and called for renewed international efforts toward global denuclearization.

‘We recommend all countries not to waste national resources and their people"s wealth on moving toward nuclear proliferation and making weapons of mass destruction,’ said the Iranian president.

He also addressed western accusations that Tehran and Pyongyang were working together on a number of military projects in Iran, saying his country has had no missile or nuclear cooperation with North Korea.

Although the dimensions of the test were not immediately verifiable, Russia"s Defense Ministry estimated the explosion"s yield at between 10 and 20 kilotons -- as powerful as the bombs the United States used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.

In October 2006, North Korea became the world"s eighth atomic power. Its first test was measured at 1 kiloton -- One kiloton is equal to the force produced by 1,000 tons of TNT.

US President Barack Obama strongly condemned the test and termed the action as ‘reckless’.

The United States and the international community must take action in response,’ he said. ‘North Korea"s nuclear ballistic missile programs pose a grave threat to the peace and security of the world.’

south korean foreign minister, yu myung-hwan

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