BEIJING/VLADIVOSTOK, Russia—China said on Thursday it agreed the United Nations should take more action against North Korea after its latest nuclear test, while pushing for more dialogue to resolve the crisis on the Korean peninsula.
North Korea said it would respond to any U.N. sanctions and U.S. pressure with “powerful counter measures”.
The United States wants the U.N. Security Council to impose an oil embargo on North Korea, ban its exports of textiles and the hiring of North Korean laborers abroad, and to subject leader Kim Jong Un to an asset freeze and travel ban, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley arrives for a meeting by the United Nations Security Council on North Korea at the U.N. headquarters in New York City on Aug. 29, 2017 REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
