国外媒体:安理会对朝鲜核试验表示强烈反对和谴责

据朝鲜中央通讯社报道，朝鲜２５日成功进行一次地下核试验，目的是加强朝鲜的自卫核遏制能力。
安理会联合国安理会２５日当天下午就朝鲜核试验问题召开了紧急会议。安理会本月轮值主席、俄罗斯常驻联合国代表丘尔金在会后对记者表示，安理会１５个理事国一致认为，朝鲜核试验违反了安理会２００６年通过的第１７１８号决议，对地区和国际安全构成了威胁，安理会对此表示“强烈反对和谴责”。

The emergency meeting of the 15-member council lasted less than an hour. Afterwards, diplomats 1 emerged with a united voice saying they opposed and condemned 2 Pyongyang's latest defiance 3 of international law.

U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice would not say if the resolution the council will begin drafting would carry new sanctions, but she said it should be strong, with appropriately strong contents.

"The U.S. thinks this is a grave violation 4 of international law and a threat to regional and international peace and security," said Susan Rice. "And therefore, the United States will seek a strong resolution with strong measures."

France's deputy ambassador, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, said his country believes new sanctions are necessary.

"The French national position is that this resolution should include new sanctions, in addition to those already adopted by the Security Council, because this behavior must have a cost and a price to pay," said Jean-Pierre Lacroix.

Japan, which has been at the forefront of urging strong council action on North Korea and called for Monday's emergency meeting, said Pyongyang's nuclear test was a serious threat to regional and international peace and security, but also to the authority and prestige of the Security Council.

Russia and China have traditionally been North Korea's strongest allies on the council. But Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, who chairs the council this month, criticized Pyongyang's actions as contrary to U.N. resolutions, the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

"We are one of the founding fathers, Russia is, of those [the NPT and CTBT] documents," said Vitaly Churkin. "So we think they are extremely important in current international relations. So anything which would undermine the regimes of those two treaties is very serious and needs to have a strong response to it."

The Chinese government issued a statement saying it resolutely 5 opposes the test.

Early Monday, North Korea confirmed it had conducted an underground nuclear test. In 2006, it performed a similar test that resulted in the adoption 6 of a U.N. Security Council resolution sanctioning it.

In April, North Korea launched a test rocket that the United States, Japan and others said was cover for a ballistic missile test. The Security Council condemned that as well, tightening 7 existing sanctions, but not adopting a new resolution.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who is a former South Korean foreign minister, also condemned North Korea's action. In a statement, the U.N. chief "deeply deplored 8" the underground nuclear test as a "clear and grave violation" of Security Council resolutions and urged Pyongyang to "refrain from taking further actions that would increase tensions in the region."