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(CNSNews.com) – Meeting urgently Wednesday to discuss Pyongyang’s latest nuclear test, the U.N. Security Council agreed to work towards meeting a 2013 commitment to “take further significant measures” in the event of another test.

That 2013 undertaking was contained in a Security Council resolution passed after North Korea’s third nuclear test, on February 12 of that year.

North Korea announced Wednesday local time that it had carried out a fourth test, claiming to have successfully detonated a miniaturized hydrogen device for the first time – a claim some experts are questioning.

Wednesday’s Security Council response came in the form of a 138-word “press statement” rather than a stronger “presidential statement.”

(At the U.N., a press statement is “a declaration to the media made by the president of the Security Council on behalf of all 15 members [and] issued as a United Nations press release” while a presidential statement is “a statement made by the president of the Security Council on behalf of the Council, adopted at a formal meeting of the Council and issued as an official document of the Council.”)

The statement cited four previous Security Council resolutions adopted since North Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006 – to little effect, self-evidently – and condemned the latest test as a violation of those earlier resolutions.

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