06 August, 2017
However, the officials said it is too early to say what the president might decide, according to the Washington-based news website.
A Chinese official said Monday there should not be a connection between the country's trade relations with the us and its dealings with North Korea.
Trump, in tweets on Saturday, said America's "foolish past leaders" had allowed China to make billions of dollars a year in trade and that he was disappointed in Beijing for not solving the problem.
Any new U.N. Security Council resolution "that does not significantly increase the global pressure on North Korea is of no value", Haley said, adding that Japan and South Korea also needed to do more.
Liu, at a news conference marking the end of China's presidency of the Security Council in July, shifted the blame to the US and North Korea for failing to bring peace, stability and denuclearization to the Korean Peninsula, CBS News' Pamela Falk reports from the United Nations.
The US and China can have a productive relationship if the two countries can work together on the issue of North Korea.
Chinese companies also have a virtual monopoly on investments in North Korea's economy, particularly natural resources.
The United States flew two supersonic B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force on Sunday in response to the missile test and the July 3 launch of the "Hwasong-14" rocket, the Pentagon said.
"No matter how capable China is, China's efforts will not yield practical results - because it depends on the two principal parties", Ambassador Liu Jieyi said.
Mr. Trump tweeted Sunday: "We will no longer allow this to continue". Not only a United States problem, ' she said.
Kim Jong-Un boasted of his country's ability to strike any target in the USA after the test on Friday that experts fear could even bring NY into range. The bombers took off from a US air base in Guam and were joined by Japanese and South Korean fighter jets during the exercise.
"China has been implementing the (U.N.) resolutions in good faith, in the comprehensive way", Liu said, "and we urge other countries to do so".
'North Korea remains the most urgent threat to regional stability, ' said General Terrence O'Shaughnessy, Pacific Air Forces commander, in a statement.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said he held telephone talks with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and agreed on the need to put "the heaviest possible pressure" on North Korea.
Susan Thornton, the acting assistant secretary of state for East Asia, said Tillerson would have the chance to engage with China's foreign minister at the meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Manila, but had no plans to meet North Korea's foreign minister there.
'We confirmed that we will closely cooperate in adopting a fresh UNSC (UN Security Council) resolution, including severe measures, and working on China and Russia, ' Kishida told reporters.
