China urged the United State to resume negotiations with North Korea and dial back military deployments to the region.
China urged the United State to resume negotiations with North Korea and dial back military deployments to the region, minutes after backing a new round of sanctions on the pariah state.
A new United Nations Security Council resolution, drafted by the United States in consultation with China, could cut North Korean exports by $1 billion, about one-third of the country’s annual exports. But China, which has long provided economic lifelines to the regime despite earlier U. N. sanctions, suggested that the resolution imposes obligations on the United States as well.
“It calls for the resumption of six-party talks, commits to finding a resolution through peaceful diplomatic and political means, and it stresses the importance of deescalating tensions on the peninsula by the parties concerned, ” Liu Jieyi, Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, said at Saturday’s meeting. “China believes that these [provisions] are part and parcel of this resolution and all the parties should implement the provisions contained in the resolution fully and earnestly.”
President Trump’s team maintains that they will not hold direct talks with North Korea until the regime agrees that the negotiations will end with the dismantlement of their nuclear weapons program.
