US Ambassador Nikki Haley said the tough new measures were a message to Pyongyang that “the world will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea”, but she also held out the prospect of a peaceful resolution to the crisis. The U.S. needs the support of both of its geopolitical rivals for its current strategy of using economic pressure and diplomacy – and not military options – for getting North Korea to halt its testing of nuclear bombs and the missiles for delivering them.
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Reports leading up to Monday’s UN Security Council vote said the United States was pressing for a total oil embargo against North Korea, but China and Russian Federation resisted the blanket ban and a “watered down” resolution was adopted instead.
Russia, one of the Security Council’s five permanent members, eventually voted for weakened penalties against North Korea after opposing initial language that sought to impose a full oil embargo and other tough sanctions on the country. “But those sanctions are nothing compared to what ultimately will have to happen”, he added, without giving details.
Peru does not have any diplomats in North Korea.
United Nations sanctions on North Korea’s important textiles industry are expected to disrupt a business largely based in China and pose compliance headaches for clothing retailers in the United States and around the world.
“These banks are not complying with the Security Council”, said Representative Ed Royce, the Republican chairman of the committee.
“That’s a problem between us and the United States”, Kim said. He did not specify whether he was referring to the use of military action against North Korea. North Korea said leader Kim Jong Un was briefed on his military’s plans to launch missiles in waters near Guam days after the Korean People’s Army announced its preparing to create “enveloping fire” near the USA military hub in the Pacific. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has suggested the possibility of dialogue – but only if Pyongyang first agrees to freeze its nuclear program. This summer, the US targeted two Russian companies with penalties for supporting North Korean missile procurement.
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The final resolution only restricts the North’s oil imports.
“In the medieval system like North Korea, Kim Jong Un’s life is as valuable as hundreds of thousands of ordinary people whose lives would be threatened in a nuclear attack”.
Most experts think that a preemptive strike against North Korea would be perceived as an attempt at regime change and that its military leadership would most likely lash out at South Korea with artillery and chemical weapons.
As China has been the major supplier of oil to North Korea, the new resolution would have little impact on Chinese oil exports to the country, since the exports would be capped at recent export levels over the past 12 months.
Moreover, the Trump administration has been giving mixed signals as far its North Korea policy is concerned.
China would have to go to great expense to clear any solid wax inside the pipeline, and the infrastructure could be irreparably damaged if the wax content exceeded a threshold, the report said.
North Korean Ambassador Han Tae Song denounced the sanctions in the “strongest terms” during a United Nations conference on disarmament on Tuesday, Yonhap reported.
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But after the latest nuclear test, Haley took a more public approach, announcing that she would circulate a draft resolution to all council members and that she meant to call for a vote on September 11.
