China Rebuffs U.S. Demand to Cut Off Oil Exports to North Korea
- Chinese ambassador say U.S. needs to tone down its rhetoric
- U.S. wants oil ban to force regime to abandon weapons program
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China rebuffed U.S. demands to cut off oil exports to North Korea as a way to dissuade Kim Jong-Un’s regime from pursuing nuclear weapons, saying instead it was American leaders who needed to tone down their rhetoric and come to the negotiating table.
China will implement all United Nations Security Council resolutions, “no more, no less,” Cui Tiankai, China’s ambassador to the U.S., told reporters at a briefing in Washington when asked if China would cut oil shipments. Any further steps would need to be worked out with the agreement of the entire UN Security Council, he said.