Yonhap: North Korea warns of 'tougher reaction' over possible US sanctions

This was reported by the Yonhap agency with reference to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

“If the US continues to take a confrontational stance, the DPRK will be forced to take stronger and more definite retaliatory measures,” the report says.

As specified, the representative of the North Korean Foreign Ministry called the recent launches "the exercise of the right to self-defense."

Earlier, US Permanent Representative to the World Organization Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that the US proposed introducing new restrictive measures through the UN against the DPRK for conducting a series of ballistic missile launches.

According to the Committee of Chiefs of Staff of South Korea, on January 11 at 07:27 local time (01:27 Moscow time), a supposedly ballistic missile was launched from the interior of the DPRK in the direction of the Sea of ​​Japan. 

The National Security Council (NSC) under the President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in condemned the new missile launch carried out by the DPRK.