Three countries are calling on international community to quickly implement all U. N. Security Council resolutions intended to punish Pyongyang
Leaders from the United States, South Korea and Japan agreed Friday to urge the United Nations to speed up the implementation of sanctions against North Korea following the country’s July 4 intercontinental missile launch.
The three leaders are asking the international community to quickly implement all United Nation’s Security Council resolutions meant to punish North Korea, according to a read-out of conversations held between U. S. President Donald Trump, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany.
The leaders all re-affirmed their commitment to denuclearize North Korea, and they called on nations bordering North Korea to help convince its leadership to stop threatening other countries and halt its ballistic missile program, according to the read-out.
The meeting comes two days after U. S. Ambassador to the U. N. Nikki Haley warned that North Korea’s missile tests were “quickly closing off the possibility of a diplomatic solution” and said the U.