May 26, 2009
On Tuesday May 26, a South Korean news agency Yonhap News reported that Kim Jong-il's North Korea has test-fired one nuclear bomb and two short-range nuclear missiles from its east coast. Yonhap news cited an unnamed government source as saying the missiles had ranges of 80 miles.
Also, Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed an underground atomic explosion from a nuclear test at 9:54 am Monday in northeastern North Korea with a blast of 10 to 20 kilotons, which is the size of the Hiroshima bomb. It caused a 4.7 magnitude earthquake.
U.N. Security Council resolutions bar North Korea from engaging in any nuclear missile-related activity.
President Barack Obama called the moves "blatant defiance" of the Security Council and a violation of international law that would only further isolate North Korea.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned the test as "erroneous, misguided and a danger to the world."
The United Nations is meeting today to decide on the matter.
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