Senior officials from South Korea and Japan have welcomed the new sanctions against the DPRK.

"Our government welcomes the United Nations Security Council's unanimous adoption of resolution 2321 on Wednesday morning, November 30, which includes support from China and Russia, in response to the North's fifth nuclear test，" said Cho June-Hyuck, spokesman of South Korean Foreign Ministry.

"The decision was to further strengthen sanctions that were set in March this year by the United Nations Security Council on the DPRK. We will strictly regulate the flow of capital, goods, and people and especially, the DPRK's export of its major resource, coal - which will be regulated with us indicating a specific number ceiling," said Yoshihide Suga, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary.