Economics
China Counting on Sanctions to Stop North Korea Nuclear Push
- Measure aims to cut $1 billion a year from Pyongyang’s exports
- Trump’s security adviser says ‘preventive’ war an option
North Korea Pledges 'Action of Justice' Against Sanctions
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China expressed confidence that new United Nations sanctions would help bring North Korea to the negotiating table to end its push for nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged North Korean counterpart Ri Yong-ho to calmly react to measures to curb its exports and avoid more provocations when they met on Sunday in Manila, where diplomats from more than 20 countries are attending a security forum. Wang, who also called for the U.S. and South Korea to reduce tensions, said after meeting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that the sanctions “created the conditions to find a breakthrough.”