MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Pyongyang officially confirmed that it had successfully carried out a new nuclear test earlier in the day after a seismic event had been registered near a test site in the country’s northeast. North Korea's Central News Agency (KCNA) announced the test confirmed that "standardized" nuclear warheads could be mounted on "strategic ballistic rockets."
"The international community should unite amid North Korea's fresh provocation, which came after a unanimous condemnation by the [UN] Security Council of the launch of ballistic missiles by North Korea earlier on Monday," the statement reads.
Earlier in the day, US President Barack Obama warned the North of "serious consequences" and called on Japan and South Korea to step up defensive cooperation to deter Pyongyang's mounting military provocation.
