In Pyongyang, thousands of DPRK citizens have rallied to reject the new UN Security Council sanctions passed in response to their country's May 25th nuclear test.

In this photo taken on Monday, June 15, 2009, and released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korean participants gather at a rally at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang.[CCTV/AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service]

About 100,000 civilians and soldiers filled Pyongyang's central Kim Il Sung Square, with a group of senior DPRK officials presiding over the rally.

Secretary of the Central Committee of DPRK's ruling Workers' Party, Kim Ki Nam, read out a speech which accused the UN of imposing new sanctions against the DPRK at what they called the "instigation of the United States".