After the United States pushed the United Nations to make sanctions against North Korea — including major seafood cuts — the country promised revenge.
In response to North Korea’s recent tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles, the The UN security council unanimously backed sanctions that could slash country’s USD 3 billion (EUR 2.5 billion) in annual export revenue by a third, according to The Guardian.
The sanctions target seafood, coal, iron, lead and other major North Korean exports.
Pyongyang vowed that it would take “righteous action” in light of the sanctions, which were described by the capital as a crime for which the U.S. would pay for “thousands of times,” reported The Guardian.
In addition to the export sanctions, the new U.N. measures forbid China, Russia and other countries from hiring any more North Korean laborers.
