North Korea nuclear test ‘extremely regrettable’: UN watchdog

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un provides guidance on a nuclear weapons program in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang September 3, 2017

North Korea’s latest nuclear test is “extremely regrettable” and “in complete disregard” of the international community’s repeated demands, the head of the UN atomic watchdog said on Sunday. “Today’s nuclear test by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is an extremely regrettable act,” International Atomic Energy Agency head Yukiya Amano said in a statement.

“This new test, which follows the two tests last year and is the sixth since 2006, is in complete disregard of the repeated demands of the international community.”