United Nations: Russia and China have blocked the UN Security Council of the imposition of sanctions on five North Korean officials in response to the recent pyongyang ballistic missile trials, decisions criticized by the United States who strive to give punishment to their role in the country’s missile program.
At the emergency council meeting on Thursday at the four North Korean ballistic missiles in the past two weeks, the US called on 15 board members to approve a short press statement considering that the launch violated the council resolution and very urgent Pyongyang to comply with the board of liabilities “and to be involved dialogue towards denuclirization “.
Diplomats, who spoke with anonymous requirements because the council meeting was closed, Chinese said, neighbors and North Korean allies, opposed any statements.
Before the meeting began, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield read a statement to reporters from eight countries called North Korea “the behavior that violates the law …
Threats to Peace and International Security.” “This launch shows the determination of the regime to pursue weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs at all costs, including at the expense of their own people,” said eight countries.
US, Albania, Brazil, France, Ireland, Japan, United Arab Emirates and Britain called on the Security Council to unite in condemning North Korea’s violations of the resolution.
And they asked the Board Committee to monitor UN sanctions against Pyongyang sanctions support for five North Koreans proposed by Biden government last week, after the US imposed its own sanctions against them.
In the past, the council had united in North Korea, but there was no unitary board on Thursday.
Asked about Russia and China blocked sanctions against five North Koreans, Thomas-Greenfield, the US Ambassador, said that every country against sanctions gave North Korea “empty check”.
The UN Security Council initially applied sanctions against North Korea after the first nuclear trial in 2006 and made them more resilient in response to further nuclear trials and increasingly sophisticated ballistic missile programs.
In 2018, the US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said sanctions had cut all North Korean exports and 90% of trade and the North Korean worker pool was sent abroad to get a hard currency – but Pyongyang had managed to avoid several measurements.
China and Russia circulated the design of the resolution in November urged the Security Council to end a number of sanctions against North Korea including the prohibition of seafood export and textiles, hats on imported petroleum products and banning prohibitions working abroad and sent their home income.
This emphasizes economic difficulties in North Korea and says this and other sanctions must be appointed “with the intention of increasing the livelihood of civilians”.
North Korea’s foreign ministry warned stronger action after the US dropped new sanctions last week and on Thursday the official korean Central News Agency said the state would consider the restart “all temporal-suspended activities” had stopped during diplomacy with the Trump government.
This seems to be a threat to continue testing nuclear explosives and remote missiles.
The news agency said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un chaired a meeting of politbiro who was in power where officials set policy goals to ‘immediately strengthen the military ability to fight America’s’ hostile hostility’.