The US is trying hard to put North Korea under tremendous pressure.
Immediately after North Korea held mass celebrations for its latest successful long-range missile test on December 2, Washington called an emergency meeting at the UN. Nikki Haley, the current US Ambassador to the world body, urged all the countries to snap diplomatic and trade ties with Pyongyang.
Speaking at the emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, Haley said: “We have never sought war with North Korea and still today, we do not seek it. But if war comes as a result of further acts of ‘aggression’, make no mistake the North Korean regime will be utterly destroyed.”

Hwasong-15. Currently, these two words haunt the US. On November 30, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) claimed that Pyongyang successfully test-fired Hwasong-15 – the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The Agency also claimed that Hwasong-15 was a new type of missile, as it was much bigger and more powerful than any the country had tested before. The KCNA reported that the latest ICBM could carry a “super-large heavy warhead which is capable of striking the whole mainland of the US”.
Apart from Haley, senior officials from Japan, South Korea, Britain, China, Russia and Italy attended the emergency meeting in New York. Haley said that all the nations “have the power to further isolate and reverse North Korea’s dangerous course, by cutting all ties to the country and enforcing UN sanctions”.
Russia was the first country to reject the US’ proposal. Although Moscow criticised Pyongyang’s recent ICBM launch test, Kremlin refused to suspend trade relations with North Korea. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the situation deteriorated because of the US and the Donald Trump administration should take the responsibility. He also said that Washington made a mistake by describing North Korea as a “state that sponsors terror”. According to Lavrov, the US didn’t try to resolve the crisis through peaceful negotiation.
Meanwhile, China’s Deputy UN Ambassador Wu Haitao reiterated the China-Russia proposal for North Korea to suspend all nuclear and missile tests, requesting the US and South Korea to suspend all military exercises in the Asia-Pacific.

Nikki Haley

Later, Haley told the Japanese, South Korean, British, Chinese, Russian and Italian ambassadors that President Trump had urged his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to cut off all oil deliveries to North Korea. “That would be a pivotal step in the world’s effort to stop this international pariah,” stressed the US ambassador.
Haley informed the envoys that the Trump administration would soon discuss the ‘North Korea’ issue with India, saying that Washington needs New Delhi’s help to corner the Asia-Pacific nation. During his visit to New Delhi in October, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made the same request to the top Indian political leadership. The US also asked South Korea to discuss the issue with India and to request the Narendra Modi government in New Delhi to snap ties with North Korea.
The US is well aware of the fact that India has opposed Washington’s move to impose economic sanctions on different countries since 1998, when the US had imposed economic sanctions on India for its series of underground nuclear tests. India is of the opinion that supporting such a move is not a good idea, because if a country supports the move today, then it can do nothing when others will make the same move against it tomorrow.

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