The UN Security Council was due to vote on Tuesday on a US-drafted re-solution imposing new san-ctions on North Korea following its nuclear test and rocket launch, US diplomats said.
The UN Security Council was due to vote on Tuesday on a US-drafted re-solution imposing new san-ctions on North Korea following its nuclear test and rocket launch, US diplomats said. The 15-member council was expected to meet at 2000 GMT (1.30 am IST) to decide on the package of measures that the United States says will impose the toughest sanctions yet on North Korea.
The US presented the draft resolution to the council last week after reaching agreement with China, Pyongyang’s sole ally, on the new sanctions.
US ambassador Saman-tha Power said adoption of the resolution would send “an unambiguous and unyielding message to the DPRK regime: The world will not accept your proliferation. There will be consequences for your actions.” The measure “would break new ground and represent the strongest set of sanctions imposed by the Security Council in more than two decades,” Ms Power said.
Meanwhile, South Kore-an President Park Geun-Hye said on Tuesday that North Korea must pay the price for its latest nuclear test and rocket launch, vo-wing to pressure Pyongy-ang into accepting denuclearisation as its only viable option for survival.
In a televised speech, Ms Park said failure to respond to the North’s “reckless provocations” would only result in further nuclear tests.
