Even North Korea’s only ally in the world is against the Hermit Kingdom’s 3rd nuclear weapons test.  China joins Australia, America, NATO, and pretty much everyone who isn’t a fan of a secretive, rogue state having the ability to act on its leadership’s explosive temper with weapons of mass destruction.

China's Foreign Ministry released a statement saying, “The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, heedless of widespread international opposition, has again carried out a nuclear test, to which the Chinese government expresses its firm opposition.”  The statement reflects Beijing’s dwindling patience with North Korea

The North Korean nuclear test precedes transitions of power in China and in South Korea.

Russia’s reaction was even stronger, Kremlin leaders saying they "condemn these actions by North Korea and view them together with the ballistic rocket launch carried out earlier as a violation of the corresponding U.N. Security Council resolution."

Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr said, "The Australian government condemns in the strongest possible terms nuclear testing by North Korea.”

And U.S. President Barack Obama stated that North Korea’s nuclear test was, “a highly provocative act that ... undermines regional stability, violates North Korea's obligations under numerous United Nations Security Council resolutions, contravenes its commitments under the September 19, 2005, Joint Statement of the Six-Party Talks, and increases the risk of proliferation.”

For its part, North Korea says this was all a reaction to unspecified U.S. provocations, and that there will be a "second and third measures of greater intensity" if Washington maintains its hostility.