North Korea has condemned a new UN Security Council resolution against it, warning that the U.S. will suffer the "greatest pain" it has ever experienced for leading the resolution.
 
[Sound bite: Han Tae-song - North Korean ambassador to the UN in Geneva]
"Since the Washington regime reveals its evil intention to completely strangle the DPRK by fabricating a fresh sanction resolution in defiance of our repeated stern warnings, the DPRK will no longer be an onlooker and make sure the U.S. pays a due price."
 
Han Tae-song, North Korean ambassador to the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament in Geneva said on Tuesday that his delegation "condemns in the strongest terms and categorically rejects the latest illegal and unlawful UN Security Council resolution."
 
Han claimed Washington "fabricated the most vicious sanction resolution" and his country is "ready to use a form of ultimate means."
 
The Security Council on Monday adopted a watered-down resolution compared with the full embargo on North Korea’s crucial crude oil supply which the U.S. had initially sought.