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1st LD Writethru: S. Korea welcomes new UN resolution on DPRK

Xinhua, March 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

South Korea on Wednesday welcomed the adoption of new UN Security Council resolution on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for its latest nuclear test and rocket launch.

The South Korean government said in a statement that it was a resolution including tougher-than-ever sanctions against the DPRK, expressing its perfect welcome and support to it.

Calling the DPRK's 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 in defiance of previous UN resolutions.

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. Enditem