22 September, 2017
The expert added that the latest statement by Haley did not contain anything that had not been said before and served to re-apply pressure on all involved parties.
The United States had been leading efforts to punish the regime for its repeated missile launches this year, which Pyongyang says are part of an effort to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile aimed at reaching the USA mainland.
Mr Abe said: "We can't be satisfied that the United Nations has approved new sanctions against North Korea".
According to Kyodo News, Abe, however, will not deliver a policy speech or deliberate issues pertinent to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, including ethical ones that have plagued the LDP, of which Abe is also under fire for.
Abe further called for the strict implementation of United Nations sanctions against Pyongyang, the latest round of which includes a ban on the North's textile exports and an embargo on work permits for the country's guest workers.
President Donald Trump says the US will impose additional sanctions on North Korea over the communist country's nuclear weapons buildup. "Their means of delivery will sooner or later be ICBMs [intercontinental ballistic missiles]".
He said the world has tried exhaustively to reach a settlement with North Korea, starting with the US-backed 1994 Agreed Framework, which collapsed a decade later.
Abe said attempts to resolve North Korean issues through dialogue "have all come to naught".
Abe also pledged to face the North Korean threat through the Japan-U.S. alliance and the trilateral unity of Japan, the United States and South Korea.
President Donald Trump has added economic action to his fiery military threats against North Korea, authorizing stiffer new sanctions in response to the Koreans' nuclear weapons advances.
Instead, she offered help in negotiating a solution with North Korea, noting that Germany played a role in talks with Iran to limit its nuclear program a 2015 agreement that Trump described as an "embarrassment" heightening expectation he plans to walk away from it.
"We consistently support the stance of the United States: that 'all options are on the table, '" stressed Abe during his Wednesday speech.
Head strong North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has declared that continued sanctions on Pyongyang will only amount to increased "pace towards the ultimate completion of the state nuclear force".
The move will please Trump administration officials, who have been asking countries with diplomatic relations with North Korea to scale them back as a way to further isolate Kim Jong Un's regime.
Dastis is in NY for the UN General Assembly in which the North Korea issue will be among the top issues discussed. Abe, Japan's longest-serving post-World War II prime minister, rose to political prominence on his calls for a tough line on North Korea over its past abductions of Japanese civilians.
