China calls for full, balanced implementation of UN resolution on DPRK
BEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- China on Thursday called for the full and balanced implementation of the United Nations Security Council new resolution on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
The new resolution, unanimously adopted on Wednesday, tightens sanctions on the DPRK in response to the country's fifth nuclear test on Sept. 9.
The resolution points out that the measures are not intended to produce negative humanitarian consequences in the DPRK, nor affect normal economic and trade activity, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said at a daily press briefing.
"We hold that the resolution should be fully implemented in a balanced way," Geng said.
The 15-nation council decided that the DPRK shall not supply, sell or transfer coal, iron and iron ore from its territory, but excluded transactions affecting people's daily livelihoods.
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DPRK condemns, rejects UN sanctions resolution over nuke program
PYONGYANG, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday strongly condemned and rejected a resolution adopted by UN Security Council that included fresh sanctions to curb its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
The DPRK rejects it "as another excess of authority and violation of the DPRK's sovereignty by the UNSC acting under instructions of the U.S.," said an unnamed spokesman for the DPRK foreign ministry in a statement carried by the state media KCNA.
The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution to tighten sanctions on the DPRK in response to the country's fifth and largest nuclear test on Sept. 9.
The council sets an upper limit on the DPRK's coal exporting, saying the total exports from the DPRK do not exceed 400.9 million U.S. dollars or 7.5 million metric tons per year, whichever is lower, starting on Jan. 1, 2017.
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