North Korea Flouts Security Council Ban on Missile Tests

An article in the NY Times states that North Korea announced it will undertake a new type of nuclear test. North Korea is suspected of "trying to make nuclear devices small and sophisticated enough to be delivered by intercontinental ballistic missiles..." 

United Nations Security Council resolutions ban North Korea from testing ballistic missile technology.

But North Korea test-launched ballistic missiles last Wednesday, flouting the Security Council. 

According to the article, North Korea exploded nuclear devices in February 2013, and in the years 2009 and 2006. North Korea also revealed in 2010 that the country is enriching Uranium. 

South Korean President Park Geun-hye, in a speech in Germany, offered assistance to the North if it would end its nuclear program.

According to a Forbes columnist, "North Korea is furious at UN Security Council resolutions denouncing the latest missile tests and sanctions still in place for its three underground nuclear tests... And then there was last week’s debate in the UN Human Rights Council upbraiding the North for all the evidence of horrific abuses presented in a 200,000-word report by a Commission of Inquiry. North Korea has repeatedly denounced the report, its UN ambassador saying, “Mind your own business,” after the Council called for charging those guilty of crimes against humanity."