The U.S. will “pay due price” if a fresh United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions resolution is passed, the North Korean foreign ministry warned on Monday.

The statement, carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), comes ahead of a meeting by the UNSC in New York on Monday to vote on a new U.S.-led resolution in response to the North’s sixth nuclear test on September 3.

A leaked draft resolution last week showed that the U.S. is likely to push for heavy new sanctions that would prohibit all oil product sales to North Korea, as well as stopping member