The U. S. is still pinning its hopes for a solution for the crisis on the Korean Peninsula on China, pressuring Beijing to do more to rein in its neighbor.
The U. S. is still pinning its hopes for a solution for the crisis on the Korean Peninsula on China, pressuring Beijing to do more to rein in its nuclear neighbor.
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to cooperate on North Korea in April, but now the two sides are arguing about whether China has upheld its end of the deal. The president suggested that he would offer China better trade deals for help on North Korea, but now U. S.-China trade is threatened.
U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Sunday that if China continues to “hold Kim Jong-un’s hand, ” the U. S. might cut certain trade ties with China. She remarked this is “one of the ammunition options we have on the table.”
“We do a lot of trade with a lot of countries, ” Haley explained to CBS News’ John Dickerson on “Face the Nation” in response to questions of whether the U. S. would really consider targeting U. S.-China trade over the North Korea issue, “If there is a country that we don’ t think is looking out for our security and looking out for our confidence in that, then yes.”
She commented that the U. S. and its international partners are determined to take a strong stance on North Korea, which has dangerous nuclear weapons and is rapidly developing the capabilities to deliver them to targets around the world.
“We’ re going to push hard not just on North Korea, we’ re going to push hard on other countries who are not abiding by the resolutions and not abiding by the sanctions against North Korea, ” she said.
