North Korea vows response after new sanctions

North Korea is vowing to respond after the United Nations Security Council voted to impose new sanctions against the country.

The North Korean government in a statement called the sanctions a “violent infringement of its sovereignty,” according to The Associated Press.

Pyongyang also said the sanctions came as a result of a “heinous U.S. plot to isolate and stifle North Korea.”

{mosads}In response, North Korea said it would take an “action of justice.”

“It’s a wild idea to think the DPRK will be shaken and change its position due to this kind of new sanctions formulated by hostile forces,” said the statement, carried by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency. 

The United Nations Security Council voted over the weekend to impose new sanctions against North Korea in retaliation for the nation’s recent intercontinental ballistic missile tests.

The vote followed two recent tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

President Trump on Saturday praised the vote, saying it imposed the “single largest economic sanctions package ever on North Korea.”