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Slams North Korea, Expands Sanctions  By: Posted By Jovarie
Downing  United Nations (CNN) -- The United Nations Security
Council unanimously adopted on Tuesday a resolution condemning
North Korea's recent rocket launch and expanding existing U.N.
sanctions.  "This resolution demonstrates to North Korea that
there are unanimous and significant consequences for its
flagrant violation of its obligations under previous
resolutions," the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan
Rice, told reporters after the vote.   "More importantly, the
provisions of this resolution -- both new sanctions and the
tightening and expanding of existing measures -- concretely help
to impede the growth of North Korea's (weapons of mass
destruction) program and reduce the threat of proliferation by
targeting entities and individuals directly involved in these
programs," she said.  Specifically, the resolution imposes
sanctions on a handful of North Korean companies, a ban