Britain presses United Nations for tougher North Korea sanctions

Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ).

Royce agreed with his Senate colleagues that getting North Korea back to the negotiating table is a goal of the sanctions bill. “I think they’ll be happy with those improvements”.

Demonstrating the importance of the bill, Republican Party presidential hopefuls, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a co-sponsor of the bill, took a break from the campaign trail to vote on it.

According to an investigation report by the United Nations, it revealed that North Korea has reconfigured Japanese made civilian radar systems for use by naval ships as showcased at an anti-ship missile test reported previous year.

Obama launched the biennial gathering of world leaders with a vision to make the world safer without nuclear weapons.

Washington, Seoul and others consider the launch a banned test of missile technology.

North Koreans watch a fireworks display from the Kim Il Sung Square as they gather to celebrate a satellite launch on February 8, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

“The North Korean regime’s flagrant disregard of global commitments and its persistent nuclear weapons development pose a threat to the region and to our nation’s security”, Bennet said.

Clapper said that Pyongyang has not flight-tested a long-range, nuclear-armed missile but is committed to its development.

“We have moved one step closer to a new round of North Korea sanctions”, Ryan told reporters in his weekly news conference.

Require a strategy to promote improved implementation and enforcement of multilateral sanctions; a strategy to combat North Korean cyber activities; and a strategy to promote and encourage global engagement on North Korean human rights-related issues. The Panel of Experts was set up under a 2009 Security Council resolution after Pyongyang’s second nuclear test to investigate how sanctions are implemented and present recommendations to enhance the sanctions regime.