10 September, 2017
The ministry also expressed its "absolute rejection" of North Korea's nuclear test, saying it violates worldwide law and poses a serious threat to Asia and the whole world.
The French presidency says Macron on Friday had an intensive exchange of views by phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping, given the "major role" his country plays in the crisis.
The proposed raft of sanctions would be the toughest-ever imposed on North Korea and seek to punish Pyongyang for its sixth and largest nuclear test. "Hopefully, we're not going to have to use it on North Korea".
Trump warned, however, that should the US pursue a military recourse it would "be a very sad day for North Korea".
Two days after Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, called for the "strongest possible measures" to be imposed on North Korea, a US-drafted resolution which circulated on Wednesday also called for banning textile exports and ending payments made to North Korean labourers sent overseas.
The United States has already banned Americans from traveling to North Korea following the death of Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old college student from OH who was released from North Korea in June in a coma after being detained there for more than a year.
Seoul had downplayed the need to rush the deployment when current President Moon Jae-in took office in May, at a time when he was appealing to North Korea with unsuccessful offers of dialogue and cooperation.
24-hours ago, Han Tae-song, ambassador of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations in Geneva while speaking at the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday said Pyongyang's biggest nuclear weapons test yet was a "gift" addressed to the United States. The Moon administration's attitude towards THAAD became more positive after two North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile tests in July.
