World community continues to criticize North Korea’s H-bomb test

Friday, January 8, 2016 | 15:41:48

(VOVworld) – On Thursday, Britain summoned the North Korean ambassador to explain Pyongyang’s H-bomb test on Wednesday.

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The international community is deeply worried the reclusive nation bay have tested a nuclear weapon (Pictured, North Korean state TV announcing bomb test)

Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire said that the UK supports the resolve of the UN to implement further significant measures against North Korea and called the test a clear violation of multiple UN Security Council Resolutions.

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Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire, left, said he had told off North Korean ambassador Hyon Hak Bong, right, over the alleged H-bomb test

The same day the Thai Foreign Ministry voiced its concern on this week’s announcement by North Korea that it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, stressing that the act not only violated the UN Security Council’s resolutions, but also eroded international efforts in making the Korean Peninsula free from nuclear.

The Australian government condemned the test considering it an act to seriously damage international standards on the non-dissemination of nuclear weapons, the Treaty of the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende called the nuclear test "a serious threat to global security and should be condemned strongly."

The Czech Republic also criticized the nuclear test, saying it was a highly irresponsible and regrettable act that seriously threatens stability and peace not only on the Korean Peninsula, but also in the whole region.

Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva condemned the nuclear test, saying he hoped the UN Security Council decides "measures that could deter this type of behavior."

Meanwhile, Belarus urged North Korea to "guarantee the meticulous fulfillment of UN Security Council resolutions and to abstain from actions that can lead to escalation".

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told media on Thursday that China summoned a Korean senior diplomat to express Beijing’s stance on the H-bomb test.

South Korean Yonhap news agency quoted news from the President Office as saying that President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on close cooperation to adopt a resolution covering strong sanctions against Pyongyang following its nuclear test.