Posted on 05/02/2017 12:43:34 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
The United States is negotiating with China on a possible stronger U.N. Security Council response - such as sanctions - to North Korea's repeated ballistic missile launches, which the 15-member body normally condemns in a statement, diplomats said.
It was not immediately clear how open Beijing might be to new sanctions. The council has traditionally boosted sanctions in response to North Korea's five nuclear tests and two long-range rocket launches.
Sanctions were first imposed on Pyongyang in 2006.
North Korea has in the past year stepped up its missile tests, firing dozens of various types of rockets, according to South Korea. The most recent test, which failed, came on Friday following a U.N. Security Council meeting on North Korea, chaired by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
"The cumulative actions of the DPRK (North Korea) since their last nuclear test compel us to look at a range of measures that would apply pressure," said a spokesman for the U.S. Permanent Mission to the United Nations on Tuesday.
"As Secretary Tillerson said on Friday, business as usual is not an option. We are exploring options for a response to this series of provocations with our Security Council colleagues," the spokesman said.
Tillerson on Friday urged the Security Council to act before North Korea does.
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Ping.
Waste of time.
That said, it is indeed a waste of time.
Kim is going to be removed and his nuclear development operations are going to be destroyed...one way or another.
And it will be in the very near future. This is why our ships are all in the neighborhood. We are putting the infrastructure in place for action as soon as Kim carries out one more relatively significant provocation.
Fiction.
“Firmer” in a U.N. sense means: oh look out the words issued by the U.N. will be “harsher”!!! That will really get little Kim to change!! NOT.
Best to have a coalition even if we do all the heavy lifting.
How much is Kim Jong Un going to be affected by a UN resolution?
Exactly, UN &China are a waste of time.
“Kim Jong Un’s leadership of the DPRK is unstable and that Kim himself might be mentally unstable.”
http://38north.org/2017/02/mmadden021417/
SHTF??
Sh!t hits the fan.
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