‘China has made greater efforts and paid a higher price than anyone else,’ Wu said, according to a U. N. translator. ‘It is irresponsible to…
An American attack on North Korea is “unacceptable” to China, a senior diplomat warned the United Nations Security Council Friday.
“The option of use of force is unacceptable,” Wu Haitao, the Chinese deputy ambassador to the U. N., said Friday. “There is no military option when it comes to the settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, and [the] resort to force can only bring disastrous consequences to the peninsula.”
That’s a repudiation of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s latest warnings that North Korea’s pursuit of the ability to strike the United States will end in war if the regime doesn’t relent. Wu also faulted Tillerson for suggesting that China has failed to put adequate pressure on the regime, citing their implementation of past U. N. sanctions.
“China has made greater efforts and paid a higher price than anyone else,” Wu said, according to a U. N. translator. “It is irresponsible to doubt what China has done.”
That defense came minutes after Tillerson “ call[ed] into question ” China’s determination to force North Korea to abandon the nuclear weapons program. “[A]s Chinese crude oil flows to North Korean refineries, the United States questions China’s commitment to solving an issue that has serious implications for the security of its own citizens,” Tillerson said.
