The United Nations: Russia and China have blocked the UN Security Council from imposing sanctions on five North Korean officials in response to recent ballistic missile tests, decisions criticized by the United States who seek to impose punishment of their role in their role.
At the emergency emergency meeting on Thursday in the four northern ballistic missiles were launched in the past two weeks, the US asked 15 council members to approve a short press statement which remembered that the launch violated the board resolution and urged Pyongyang to comply with the council of obligations “and to be involved in dialogue Denuclirization “.
Diplomats, spoke with anonymous requirements because the council meeting was closed, Chinese said, a neighbor and North Korean allied, opposed any statement.
Before the meeting began, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield read a statement to reporters from eight countries who called “behavior violating the threat to North Korea’s international peace and security.” “This launch shows the determination of the regime to pursue weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs in a certain way, including at the expense of their own people,” said eight countries.
US, Albania, Brazil, France, Ireland, Japan, United Arab Emirates and England call the Security Council to be united in condemning North Korean resolution violations.
And they asked the Board Committee to monitor UN sanctions against Pyongyang to support sanctions against five North Korea proposed by Biden government last week, after the US imposed their own sanctions against them.
In the past, the council had united in North Korea, but there was no council union on Thursday.
Asked about Russia and China blocked the sanctions against five North Korea, Thomas-Greenfield, the US Ambassador, said any country against sanctions gave North Korea “blank examination”.
The UN Security Council initially imposed sanctions in North Korea after his first nuclear test in 2006 and made them more difficult in response to further nuclear tests and increasingly sophisticated ballistic missile programs.
In 2018, US Ambassador Nikki Haley said sanctions had cut all North Korean exports and 90% of their trade and dissolved the pond of workers who were sent North Korea to get a hard currency – but Pyongyang had managed to avoid measurements.
China and Russia circulate the draft resolution in November their home income.
This emphasizes economic difficulties in North Korea and says this and other sanctions must be revoked “with the intention of increasing the livelihoods of civilians”.
North Korean Foreign Ministry warned stronger action after the US was wearing a new sanction last week and on Thursday the official South Korean Central News Agency said the country would consider restarting “all temporary suspended activities” had been paused during trump administration.
This seems to be a threat to continue testing nuclear explosives and remote missiles.
The news agency said the North Korean leader Kim Jong United led the meeting of the powerful workers’ party politbiro where officials set policy goals to “immediately strengthen the” military ability to fight America’s “hostile movement”.