MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Pyongyang confirmed earlier in the day that it had tested a nuclear warhead at its northeastern nuclear test site. The experiment was its fifth nuclear test and the largest ever performed by North Korea.
Schaefer said that the North Korean ambassador would be summoned later on Friday to be informed "very clearly" about the federal government’s stance on what it deems a new provocation by Pyongyang.
Seibert stressed this was not the first provocation by the North since the start of the year. North Korea carried out another nuclear test in January and launched several missiles into the Sea of Japan.
He said the federal government would continue, together with other EU member states, to react decidedly and "unequivocally" to new provocations by North Korea.
