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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose punishing sanctions on North Korea for its claimed nuclear test, declaring that its action posed “a clear threat to international peace and security.”

North Korea immediately rejected the resolution, and its U.N. ambassador walked out of the council chamber after accusing its members of a “gangster-like” action which neglects the nuclear threat posed by the United States. Ambassador Pak Gil Yonsaid North Korea wants talks but warned that it will consider increased U.S. pressure a declaration of war.

The vote came after the United States, Britain and France overcame last-minute differences with Russia and China during what Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin called “tense negotiations.”

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