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US asks UN to freeze assets of North Korea’s Kim over missile activities
The continued missile tests by North Korea which has caused regional and worldwide condemnation has forced the United States to ask the UN Security Council to freeze the assets of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un.
The move by the US also seeks to slap an oil embargo and textile exports ban on the pariah Asian country in response to Pyongyang’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test.
Two days after Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, called for the “strongest possible measures” to be imposed on North Korea, a US-drafted resolution which circulated on Wednesday also called for banning textile exports and ending payments made to North Korean labourers sent abroad.
Al Jazeera’s Rosiland Jordan, reporting from the UN headquarters in New York, said the draft, which has “raised eyebrows”, was likely to meet resistance by China and Russia.
“The oil embargo is something that China, in particular, would very much oppose to,” she said.
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“Beijing not only provides the bulk of North Korea’s energy needs, but the measure could also lead – according to the Chinese – to an economic collapse [of North Korea],” Jordan added.
“That is something that China does not want to see.”
24-hours ago, Han Tae-song, ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations in Geneva while speaking at the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday said Pyongyang’s biggest nuclear weapons test yet was a ‘gift’ addressed to the United States.
“I am proud of saying that just two days ago on the 3rd of September, DPRK successfully carried out a hydrogen bomb test for intercontinental ballistic rocket under its plan for building a strategic nuclear force,” Han told the Geneva forum.
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