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Estonia denounces the nuclear test North Korea carried out on Tuesday.
Estonia condemns North Korean nuclear test
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"We condemn the North Korean nuclear test. North Korean leaders had better use the money spent on such tests for the benefit of their people," Foreign Minister Urmas Paet told BNS.
The isolated state confirmed on Tuesday it had successfully conducted its third underground test which involved a miniaturized device with a bigger explosive yield.
The South Korean Defense Ministry put the explosive yield at 6-7 kilotons, significantly more than the 2006 and 2009 tests.
The test has already been condemned by the European Union, NATO, the United States, Russia, Japan and South Korea. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called it a destabilizing provocation.
The EU condemned the test "in the strongest possible terms", saying it was "a further blatant challenge" to the world's non-proliferation regime. A statement from EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton warned that the EU would work with its partners to show "the DPRK (North Korea) that there are consequences."