UNITED NATIONS/SEOUL • The United Nations Security Council was set to vote yesterday (6am today Singapore time) on a watered-down US-drafted resolution to impose new sanctions on North Korea over its latest nuclear test, diplomats said, but it was unclear whether China and Russia would support it..
UNITED NATIONS/SEOUL • The United Nations Security Council was set to vote yesterday (6am today Singapore time) on a watered-down US-drafted resolution to impose new sanctions on North Korea over its latest nuclear test, diplomats said, but it was unclear whether China and Russia would support it.
North Korea has warned the United States it would pay a „due price“ for spearheading efforts for fresh sanctions over this month’s nuclear test, which followed a series of test missile launches, all in defiance of UN sanctions.
A US-drafted resolution originally calling for an oil embargo on the North, a halt to its key exports of textiles and subjecting leader Kim Jong Un to a financial and travel ban, has been weakened, apparently to placate Russia and China which both have veto powers, diplomats said.
It no longer proposes blacklisting Mr Kim and sanctions on oil and gas, a draft shows.
