North Korea on Saturday rejected a UN resolution condemning Pyongyang's alleged human rights abuses as a US-led political plot and warned the US, the European Union and Japan of "unpredictable consequences" for leading the move. North Korea's Foreign Ministry issued the harsh warning, labeling the resolution - passed at the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday - as a "politically motivated document...full of sheer lies and fabrications." Pyongyang "sternly refutes the resolution as it is a product of the anti-(North Korea) political plot hatched by the EU and Japan at the prodding of the US," the ministry said, according to the country's official Korean Central News Agency. "The US, the EU and Japan will be held fully accountable for all the unpredictable consequences," the state news agency said, without elaborating on what those consequences might be.
The warning came a day after North Korea test-fired a barrage of short-range missiles into waters off its western coast in an apparent response to the new South Korean government's tougher stance on Pyongyang. South Korea also voted in favor of the resolution, but the North's ministry made no mention of that.