The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday will hold an emergency meeting in the wake of North Korea’s third nuclear test, Reuters reported.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the test, widely seen as an act of deiance to the west, “deplorable.” The meeting, scheduled for 9 a.m. EST Tuesday, was called by South Korea, this month’s president of the Security Council and a leery neighbor to South Korea.
According to Reuters, the Council will meet to produce a statement condemning the test and “begin work on a more comprehensive council reaction.” After the test was roundly denounced by the international community, North Korea made a vague promise for “second and third measures of greater intensity.”
