Indicating how seriously the North takes the U.N. move, its vice foreign minister called a gathering of foreign diplomats in the capital early Friday to lay out his country`s opposition to the sanctions, which are the harshest to date and have the support of China, North Korea`s primary trading partner.
North Korea`s Foreign Ministry, in a statement issued soon after the sanctions were announced, "categorically" rejected the sanctions, prompted by its nuclear test on Sept. 9.
It warned of tough countermeasures, but didn`t say what they might be.
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