UN Security Council expected to impose new sanctions on DPRK

A South Korean human rights group claims to have identified a large collection of mass graves inside the oppressive and reclusive North Korea.

He said North Korea is unlikely to react strongly to the resolution as it has in the past because of the current political climate.

“No resolution in NY will likely, tomorrow, persuade Pyongyang to cease its relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons”, said Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the UN. But this resolution imposes unprecedented costs on the DPRK regime for defying this council’s demands.

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said following the vote.

The resolution also calls for U.N. member nations to pay attention to the North’s labor exports, saying their wages could be diverted for the nuclear and missile programs.

Negotiations on the draft United Nations resolution began shortly after North Korea carried out what it said was a successful test of a nuclear warhead on September 9.

The U.S. already blacklisted the firm in September.

The resolution on Wednesday was created to address a gaping loophole in a previous set of sanctions adopted in March that allowed coal exports from the North for “livelihood” reasons.

Further to the text, each Member State that procures coal from the DPRK must report the aggregate amount of the volume of such procurement monthly.

In a statement it said it will be taking stronger self-defense measures in response to the resolution, the country’s KCNA state news agency said. The PRC is only able to give half-hearted support to the subsequent blizzard of sanctions and condemnation, thereby sending the message to South Korea that China is – in contrast to the United States – an occasional, fair-weather friend.

“This is carefully calibrated by the Chinese”.

And this is only scratching the surface of how the unfreezing of billions of dollars of Iranian assets and removal of sanctions on Iranian entities involved in nuclear-related activities, which have had ties with North Korean entities involved in nuclear-related activities, will help accelerate the nuclear weapons and missile programs of both rogue regimes. Roughly 70 percent of the North’s trade runs through China, including most of its food supplies.

The unanimous decision included China, which is North Korea’s primary coal buyer.

The nuclear explosion that took place in September caused a 5.3 magnitude natural disaster occurred in South Korea and has now been recorded as their fifth and largest test, bigger than those used to bomb Hiroshima.

He added that during the time of the worst flood in decades, North Korea went ahead with the “nuclear test this September in the hardest hit region”.

In the editorial article written by the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China The Global Times, it said that China could not influence the deadlock on its own. They remark that they should not just rely on China to reign on North Korea regarding its nuclear weapons.

Diplomats say the council’s five veto-wielding powers – the United States, China, Britain, Russia and France – have agreed to new measures, seen by Reuters on Friday, that largely target the hermit Asian state’s coal export earnings.

China’s trade with North Korea has been falling this year, some 13% from a year earlier according to data in May from the Korea International Trade Association.

The last round of United Nations sanctions, in March, had failed to deter North Korea.

Coal exports are now only allowed for the livelihood of people in the DPRK.

The article also contained a pledge to continue the development of what it deems to be defensive measures and to hold the USA accountable for the measures against it via the Security Council, despite 15 countries voting in favor of the resolution.