Haley rejected the idea of acquiescing to North Korea’s military ambitions.
President Trump’s top diplomat at the United Nations said Monday that the new package of sanctions against North Korea are “by far the strongest measures ever imposed” on the regime following a week of negotiations with China and Russia.
“This will cut deep, ” Ambassador Nikki Haley said following a unanimous vote to adopt the sanctions, levied in response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test. “They give us a much better chance to halt the regime’s ability to fuel and finance its nuclear and missile programs.”
The sanctions, targeting North Korea’s oil imports and textile imports — as well as its ability to profit from North Korean forced laborers working overseas — should deprive the pariah state of $1.3 billion annually. Haley coupled that tally with rhetorical nods to the regime and its international backers, by emphasizing that the United States has no desire to overthrow North Korea or cause humanitarian suffering through sanctions.
But she also rejected the idea of acquiescing to North Korea’s military ambitions.
“Today, we are attempting to take the future of the North Korean nuclear program out of the hands of it’s outlaw regime, ” Haley said.
North Korea has conducted a flurry of ballistic missile and nuclear weapons tests, raising alarms that the regime is nearly capable of striking the United States with a nuclear weapon.
