US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Tuesday she’s working with China, South Korea and Japan on a new set of sanctions against North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s most recent ballistic missile test….
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Tuesday she’s working with China, South Korea and Japan on a new set of sanctions against North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s most recent ballistic missile test. The US and its allies will push for further measures to isolate North Korea in a special meeting of the UN Security Council aimed at halting the country’s efforts to develop nuclear weapons that could reach as far as the US mainland, Haley said, standing alongside her South Korean and Japanese counterparts. The US also wants to extend sanctions to countries supporting North Korea as a way to halt the flouting of existing UN sanctions on the country. The US is “looking at third-country entities who are helping North Korea and putting sanctions on them because if you are supporting North Korea you are against the rest of the international community, ” Haley said. North Korea conducted its seventh ballistic missile test this year on Sunday, just ahead of the opening of an international infrastructure forum in Beijing, attended by 29 heads of state. “We need to put further pressure on North Korea to make them feel that they have to change their course, ” said Japan Ambassador to the UN Koro Bessho. “The United States, the ROK and Japan are standing together.” “North Korea is at the final stage of nuclear weaponization, ” South Korea’s UN Ambassador Cho Tae-yul said. “Time is running out and the clock is ticking towards the tipping point.”
