The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to impose tough new sanctions on North Korea in response to its latest nuclear test and rocket launch.
The new sanctions, the result of a long and often tense negotiation between China and the US, include a ban on weapons exports and compulsory inspections of cargo entering and leaving North Korea.
UN diplomats said that the new package of sanctions included some of the toughest penalties ever levied on the country, but pointed out that previous sanctions had less impact than initially hoped because of China’s reluctance to fully implement them.
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