Kim Hong-kyun said such a resolution would seek to “close the loopholes” in the existing sanctions as well as to place “pressure on North Korea from all directions so that it will no longer be able to operate normally in the worldwide community”.
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The U.N. Security Council, which tightened sanctions in March, has vowed to try to close loopholes and implement even stricter measures in response to the latest test.
China must help the worldwide community close loopholes in sanctions on North Korea after an “unprecedented” series of provocations by Pyongyang this year, a top USA envoy said on Tuesday.
Washington said the demonstration was “just one example of the full range of military capabilities” that the U.S. possessed to counter potential threats from North Korea in the face of the latter’s nuclear and missile tests.
Pyongyang has pledged to develop a nuclear arsenal in what it says is a bid to protect itself from the USA military.
The pair of supersonic B-1 Lancer strategic bombers, based in Guam, were escorted on Tuesday by South Korean and United States fighter jets in a low-altitude flight over South Korea’s Osan airbase. The United States had taken various military counteractions after major provocations from the communist country.
China urged restraint among all parties.
Pyongyang’s fifth nuclear test was the latest in a series of provocations by the regime, which fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on 24 August that flew about 500 km in what was probably its most successful SLBM test launch to date.
It warned that the North Korean army was fully armed with “all means for military counteraction” to strike back at any enemy attack in “a single blow”.
Such flyovers are common when tension flares on the Korean Peninsula, which is technically in a state of war as there has never been a peace treaty to officially end the 1950-53 Korean War. But Beijing prefers keeping a nuclear-armed North Korea afloat as a buffer against the South and the United States, Seoul’s military ally, to risking the collapse of the North’s government with too severe enforcement of sanctions, analysts say.
According to CNN, U.S. Forces Korea commander General Vincent K. Brooks replied to the Friday testing on Tuesday.
His warning comes after an underground test in the secretive state prompted the USA to fly two BI-B bombers over the nation in a show of strength and commitment to defending ally South Korea.
There has been severe flooding in North Korea forcing more than 100,000 people to leave their homes and killing 133 people, with hundreds more missing. “The meeting taking place in unprecedentedly grave security conditions will discuss comprehensive and powerful sanctions and pressure on North Korea”, the ministry said.
China responded by saying that the mess leading to North Korea’s nuclear tests isn’t theirs to clean up.
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“North Korea’s nuclear test is a risky escalation and poses an unacceptable threat”.
