19 September, 2017
The North Korean nuclear issue must be resolved peacefully, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart during a meeting at the United Nations, China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
The chairman of the U.S. Senate's East Asia subcommittee is asking China and 20 other nations on Monday to clamp down on North Korea by cutting ties, closing down diplomatic facilities and working to oust the country from the United Nations.
In a New York Times article, the Japanese Prime Minister notes that the worldwide community must remain united and apply the sanctions against North Korea after its multiple missile tests.
Many of President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans have been calling for tougher action, imposed more quickly, including calling for stiff "secondary" sanctions and other punishments for companies, banks and countries that do business with North Korea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in early September that he did not expect Pyongyang to stop its missile and nuclear programs under pressure of sanctions and military threats, because the examples of Iraq and Libya have convinced it that nuclear deterrence is the only credible way to ensure its security.
"With its Friday missile launch, Pyongyang wanted to give the impression that sanctions will not work".
"But that past sanctions did not work does not mean they will not. Giving the sanctions time to bite is the best way to make Pyongyang reconsider".
"We can not allow the United States or any other nation to hold this sort of experiments with North Korea", Senator Konstantin Kosachev said in comments with Izvestia daily.
If a North Korean missile were to threaten USA or Japanese territory, he said, "that would elicit a different response from us".
Pyongyang has launched dozens of missiles as it accelerates a weapons programme created to provide the ability to target the United States with a powerful, nuclear-tipped missile.
Pyongyang has launched dozens of missiles, in an accelerated weapons program, created to reach an "equilibrium" of military force with the United States, according to The North.
