WHITFIELD: A new threat coming from North Korea today calling tough new sanctions by the United Nations in act of war. The world nation also saying countries that supported the vote will quote "pay a heavy price." The UN Security Council voting unanimously to put more restrictions on energy exports to North Korea and requires North Koreans working abroad to return home within two years. And North Korean ballistic missile test in November sparked there latest sanctions. CNN global affairs correspondent Elise Labott is following the story for us and joining us now. So was this reaction from North Korea surprising or is it particularly, you know, in step with its rhetoric?</s>ELISE LABOTT, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: I think it is pretty typical North Korean fair, Fred. You know, North Korea, when you have a U.N. Security Council resolution, when you have some action by the U.S. whether sanctions, whether it is military exercises in the year the Korean Peninsula with Korea or Japan, you always hear some very fiery rhetoric from North Korea making threats. Sometimes they are even more specific about what they are going to do. So I think everyone expected that you would hear something like. North Korea calling this a complete economic blockade, these sanctions, these oil sanctions have cutting their domestic workers. So I think the question is whether this is enough to squeeze the North Koreans and get them to the table or whether you will see some North Korean action whether it is missile test, a nuclear test or something else.</s>WHITFIELD: All right. Elise Labott, thank you so much. And Merry Christmas.</s>LABOTT: You too, Fred.</s>WHITFIELD: All right. Still ahead, following their stunning upset victory in the Alabama senate race, Democrats hope to keep the momentum flowing heading into 2018. Their strategy for taking on Republicans and the Trump administration next.
New threat coming from North Korea today calling tough new sanctions by the United Nations in act of war