SEOUL, March 3 (Xinhua) -- South Korea on Wednesday hailed the adoption of a new UN Security Council resolution on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), calling it the toughest and most effective in UN history.
Seoul's foreign ministry said in a government statement that it was a resolution including tougher-than-ever sanctions against the DPRK, expressing a perfect welcome and support toward it.
Calling the DPRK nuclear test and rocket launch as "intolerable", the statement said the new UN resolution was an expression of the international community's firm will to change the DPRK's "wrong calculations" by making Pyongyang pay a harsh price for its reckless provocations that came in defiance of previous UN resolutions and the international society.
The UN Security Council unanimously approved the new sanctions against the DPRK, which conducted its fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6 and went ahead with a long-range rocket launch on Feb. 7.
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