"Beyond diplomatic and financial consequences, the United States remains prepared to counteract North Korean aggression through other means, if necessary", UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said after the unanimous vote.
It was Washington's "ultimate double standard" to ban other countries from nuclear or missile tests amid its own attempts to modernize the USA arsenal.
The 14 individuals newly added to the global sanctions blacklist include Cho Il U, who is believed to be in charge of overseas espionage operations, and Jo Wong Won, a close aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as vice director of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea's Organization and Guidance Department.
North Korea "fully rejects" the latest United Nations sanctions against its citizens and entities as a "hostile act" and will continue its nuclear weapons development without a delay, Reuters reports, citing a statement from its foreign ministry spokesman said.
Since Moon's May 10 inauguration, North Korea has test-fired three ballistic missiles in an apparent show of its resolve to expand its weapons arsenal to cope with what it calls USA hostility.
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South Korea is questioning four North Koreans rescued from waters off the east coast and will return them to the North if they want to go back, the South's Unification Ministry said on Monday.
On Friday, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution drafted by the United States to expand the scope of sanctions, travel bans and asset freezes against North Korea.
North Korea, however, responded in typical bombast Sunday - with its foreign ministry flack warning it would be "a fatal miscalculation" for countries to "think that they can delay or hold in check the eye-opening development of the (North's) nuclear forces even for a moment".
"It is not only a ballistic missile defence system - it has real function", said Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin.
Meanwhile, Russian officials have also revealed in their statement that Kim Jong-un and his country is a direct threat to Russia. "That is our principle position", he said. But it differs from the United States and its allies on how to rein in the North's rapidly escalating nuclear and ballistic missile program. "Economical restrictions should be a kind of tool to invoke North Korea to a peaceful process of resolving the dispute and conflict, and not to once again deteriorate the economic solution in North Korea", he said.
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