The United States will propose to its 14 partners of the UN Security Council to adopt new international sanctions against North Korea after several ballistic missile attacks carried out by Pyongyang, the ambassador announced Wednesday evening January 12. American to the UN.
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After the announcement on Wednesday of new financial sanctions against five North Korean nationals by the US Treasury and State Department,
"the United States proposes UN sanctions following Korea's six ballistic missile launches North since September 2021, each of them violating UN Security Council resolutions
, ”Linda Thomas-Greenfield wrote in a tweet. His message does not specify what type of sanctions could be proposed to the Security Council, where China and Russia, endowed with a right of veto and who have been asking for more than a year for an easing of the measures taken against Pyongyang, could s 'oppose it.
North Korea fired a firing claimed to be from a hypersonic missile last week.
While a Security Council meeting took place on Monday on this shot, Pyongyang claimed to have repeated the experience of a hypersonic missile test under the personal supervision of North Korean number one Kim Jong Un. This new test has been described by diplomats as a
"provocation"
.
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The last demonstrations of unity by the Security Council date back to 2017. Under the administration of Republican Donald Trump, the United States unanimously passed the Security Council three rounds of increasingly heavy economic sanctions after missile and nuclear tests carried out by North Korea.
These measures, still in force, notably limit Pyongyang's oil imports and prohibit its exports of coal, iron, fishing or textiles.