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The international community has criticized the testing of a nuclear device in North Korea and the U.N. Security Council has called for "appropriate punishment." The director of the UCSD Institute on G

Diplomats at the United Nations say they are making progress on a resolution to punish North Korea for conducting what appears to have been a nuclear weapons test. The Bush administration has proposed a list of sanctions to target North Korea's small elite and the secretive nation's weapons programs.

English speakers might be justified for their confusion over the wording of North Korean reports of its alleged underground test of a nuclear device. Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains the roots of the fractured English spoken in North Korea.

North Korea ups the nuclear ante, threatening a nuclear chain reaction in the region. We talk about the implications.

The United Nations Security Council meets to consider its response to an announcement from North Korea that it has completed its first nuclear test. The council is likely to consider sanctions including blocking technology transfers to and from North Korea.

The United Nations has nominated South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as U.N. secretary-general. Madeleine Brand speaks with Ambassador Wendy Sherman, former North Korea policy adviser to President Clinton, about what kind of leader he would be.

President Bush calls North Korea's nuclear test a "provocative act" that demands an immediate response from the U.N. Security Council. At the White House Monday, the president also issued a stern warning to North Korea against transferring nuclear technology.

Asian countries join in condemning North Korea's nuclear test. South Korea now may rethink its policy of engagement with the North, while the test puts particular pressure on China, which provides 70 percent of North Korea's food and fuel aid.

Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to China for the first formal summit between the two countries in five years. The trip comes at a time of high regional tension, with North Korea threatening to carry out a nuclear test.

In a warning letter to nations that might contribute troops to a peacekeeping force in Darfur, Sudan has said it would consider such forces hostile and a prelude to an invasion. The United States ambassador to the United Nations lambasted Sudan for trying to intimidate U.N. member nations.