Should North Korea be punished for nuclear testing & putting the world at risk ?

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Hi everyone, found this article at www.GlobalSecurity.org (only part of the whole report though) Nuclear Weapons Testing On October 9, 2006, north Korea's Korean Central News Agency announced that it had successfully conducted an underground nuclear test. The test was reported to have taken place at 10:36AM, local time, in Hwaderi, near Kilju city, in north Hamkyung province. According to the KCNA statement, no radioactive leakage had taken place as a consequence of the test. Initial report indicated that the South Korean Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources had have detected a seismic tremor of a magnitude 3.58 to 3.7 on the Richter scale at around that time. The US Geological Survey later reported detecting seismic activity rating at 4.2 on the Richter scale at 10:35:27 AM, local time on October 9, 2006, with the epicenter determined to be located at 41.311°N, 129.114°E; putting it in the general proximate vicinity of the Chik-tong, P'unggye-yok site that had been reported on in the days prior as a possible nuclear test site location of concern. The nuclear test was reported to have had a yield equivalent to 550 tons of TNT The test took place a day after the anniversary of Kim Jong Il's accession to the post of General Secretary of the National Workers' Party in 1997, and a day prior to the 61st anniversary of the founding of the National Worker's Party. The test also took place on the day Japan's Shinzo Abe arrived in South Korea for his first visit there in his new capacity as Prime Minister. The test also follows a United Nations Security Council presidential statement from October 6, 2006 warning north Korea against conducting a nuclear test and "that a nuclear test, if carried out by the DPRK, would represent a clear threat to international peace and security". According to press reports, China was given 20 minutes prior notice of the nuclear test by north Korea , and then immediately proceeded to alert the United States, South Korea and Japan. ...According to an analysis by Satoshi Morimoto of Takushoku University, " ... carrying out nuclear tests inside north Korea would be an extremely sticky action. That is because this kind of nuclear testing could only be carried out underground. There is absolutely no way they could do in the air or above ground. Even with underground nuclear testing, you normally need a fifty to sixty kilometer square of desert for a nuclear test. In the U.S., this would be something like the Nevada desert. Unless you have the kind they have in India or Pakistan, you cannot do it. The reason for this is that the underground water system gets damaged. north Korea has a very abundant flow of underground water, and if you carry out an underground nuclear test in this kind of place, radioactive materials would get into the water supply for the whole of the Korean peninsula, and also flow out into the Sea of Japan. As a consequence, if there were any underground nuclear testing in the Korean peninsula, it would not be just the ecological system, but also the topography of the land that would be damaged... ... the UN warned north Korea not to push through with the test as it will put the world at risk, however, they still conducted it. Do you think the UN should put sanction to north Korea ? Please give your inputs.