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A senior Chinese government official has disclosed that the country has agreed for the United Nations to take more actions against North Korea in the wake of its latest and most powerful nuclear test.

In response to the continuous push for more sanctions and an oil embargo, North Korea has stated that they would respond powerful countermeasures.

"We will respond to the barbaric plotting around sanctions and pressure by the United States with powerful counter measures of our own," North Korea said in a statement by its delegation to an economic forum in Vladivostok, in Russia's Far East.

China is by far North Korea's biggest trading partner and should a trading embargo be placed between both countries, the latter would be worst hit.

"Given the new developments on the Korean peninsula, China agrees that the U.N. Security Council should make a further response and take necessary measures," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters on Thursday, without elaborating.

"Any new actions taken by the international community against the DPRK should serve the purpose of curbing the DPRK's nuclear and missile programs, while at the same time be conducive to restarting dialogue and consultation," he said, referring to North Korea by the initials of its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.