13 September, 2017
"If it proves it can live in peace, the world will live in peace with it", she told the UN Security Council after the adoption of new sanctions.
But after the latest nuclear test, Haley took a more public approach, announcing a week ago that she would circulate a draft resolution to all council members and that she meant to call for a vote on September 11.
The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted new sanctions on North Korea, including restrictions on oil shipments, to punish Pyongyang for its sixth and largest nuclear test. A ban on oil exports to North Korea was dropped from Monday's United Nations resolution.
The measures were approved unanimously on Monday.
In addition, according to figures from the International Trade Centre, a joint World Trade Organization-United Nations agency, the North imported $115 million-worth of refined oil products - which could include petrol and aircraft fuel - from China a year ago.
That could be a significant restriction.
But with Berlin, Paris and London potentially within striking distance of North Korea's missiles from next year, officials say the USA -led alliance's system needs more radars and special interceptors to destroy a rocket from Pyongyang. So the 2 million barrel cap could be cutting existing imports 10 per cent, or slashing them by more than half.
China would support further United Nations action if it helped restart dialogue with North Korea, foreign minister Wang Yi said last week. Pyongyang's overseas labor program, first targeted in the latest round of sanctions in August, will also see further restrictions.
"The forthcoming measures by DPRK (the Democratic Republic of Korea) will make the United States suffer the greatest pain it has ever experienced in its history", he said.
The watered-down resolution does not include sanctions the U.S. wanted on North Korea's national airline and the army, but USA ambassador Nikki Haley told the council after the vote: "These are by far the strongest measures ever imposed on North Korea". It also bans the sale of condensates and natural gas liquids to the North.
Park Soo-hyun, the presidential spokesman added, "North Korea should stop testing the stern resolve of the global community, for the only way to escape from diplomatic isolation and economic pressure is to return to the negotiating table for a complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization".
To kick-start talks, China and Russian Federation have proposed a dual suspension of North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile testing, as well as USA and South Korean military exercises.
Biswas noted, however, that the situation with China remains both crucial and complicated.
Limits on imports of crude oil and oil products.
One metric ton is roughly equal to roughly seven barrels of crude oil. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is certainly keeping the door open to diplomacy, but he's focused on this sanctions track for now - the pressure side - so that if talks eventually get going, the US will go into it with some more leverage.
"In case the USA eventually does rig up the illegal and unlawful "resolution" on harsher sanctions, the DPRK shall make absolutely sure that the US pays due price", the spokesman said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.
Meanwhile, North Korea has strongly condemned the move. It will ban all textile exports, taking hundreds of million dollars from the export revenues that the North Korean regime uses to fund its illegal nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. Among conservative respondents, 82 percent back halting all aid to North Korea, but the proportion is also high among moderates with 65 percent and even 52 percent of progressives.
