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Mr Solana said the North Korean move had been "a hostile act to security and stability to the whole world" (Photo: Austrian EU Presidency)

Top EU diplomat says UN should 'act' on North Korea

EU foreign affairs chief Javier Solana has urged UN action following North Korea's controversial nuclear tests earlier this week, saying it could unleash a global arms race.

"It is an act which we condemn and protest against most vigorously," Mr Solana told the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday (11 October), following Monday's nuclear test in North Korea near the border with China.

He said that the nuclear test "is a threat to the region and constitutes a hostile act to...

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Mr Solana said the North Korean move had been "a hostile act to security and stability to the whole world" (Photo: Austrian EU Presidency)

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