Economics
North Korea Fault Lines Exposed at UN Security Council Meeting
- China, Russia push back on Pompeo’s demand to keep sanctions
- Debate comes just weeks before Pompeo plans trip to Pyongyang
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the United Nations Security Council meeting on North Korea, on Sept. 27.
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The divide over the future of North Korean sanctions dominated a United Nations Security Council meeting on Thursday just a few weeks before America’s top diplomat visits Pyongyang to press the country’s leaders for swifter progress toward denuclearization.
The foreign ministers of Russia and China called on the Security Council to ease sanctions, an idea that met strong resistance from U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and underscored the challenge the Trump administration will face keeping up pressure on Kim Jong Un’s regime.