Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke with US President Donald Trump on Monday and agreed on the need for further action on North Korea just hours after the US Ambassador to the United Nations said the United States is “done talking about North Korea”.
Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the United Nations, said in a statement that China must decide if it is willing to back imposing stronger UN sanctions on North Korea over Friday night’s long-range missile test, the second this month.
Any new UN Security Council resolution “that does not significantly increase the international pressure on North Korea is of no value,” Haley said, adding that Japan and South Korea also needed to do more.
Abe told reporters following his conversation with Trump that repeated efforts by the international community to find a peaceful solution to the North Korean issue had yet to bear fruit in the face of Pyongyang’s unilateral “escalation” of the situation.
“International society, including Russia and China, need to take this seriously and increase pressure,” Abe said, adding that the two nations would take steps towards concrete action but did not give details.
Abe and Trump did not discuss military action against North Korea, nor what would constitute the crossing of a “red line” by Pyongyang, Deputy Chief Cabinet spokesman Koichi Hagiuda told reporters.
North Korea said on Saturday it had conducted another successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that proved its ability to strike the US mainland, drawing a sharp warning from Trump and a rebuke from China.
Trump later wrote on Twitter that he was “very disappointed” in China and that Beijing had done “nothing” for the United States in regards to North Korea, something he would not allow to continue.
China has yet to officially respond to Trump’s tweet, but State-run Chinese tabloid the Global Times said in a Monday editorial that Trump’s “wrong tweet” was of no help to resolving the situation, and that he did not understand the issues.
“Pyongyang is determined to develop its nuclear and missile program and does not care about military threats from the US and South Korea. How could Chinese sanctions change the situation?” the paper, published by the ruling Communist Party’s official People’s Daily, added.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who is on vacation, planned to have a phone call with Trump soon, a senior official at the Presidential Blue House said.
“If the two heads of state talk, they will likely discuss their respective stances on North Korea, the US-(South Korea’s) alliance’s standpoint on North Korea and other things including how to impose heavy sanctions.”
The United States flew two supersonic B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force on Sunday in response to the missile test and the July 3 launch of the “Hwasong-14” rocket, the Pentagon said. The bombers took off from a US air base in Guam, and were joined by Japanese and South Korean fighter jets during the exercise.
“North Korea remains the most urgent threat to regional stability,” Pacific Air Forces commander General Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy said in a statement. “If called upon, we are ready to respond with rapid, lethal, and overwhelming force at a time and place of our choosing.”
Time for USA to move its bases out of South Korea, stop annual military provocations near the border, remove THAAD and sanctions, restore command of military for.ces in South Korea and Japan back to their respective nations. One can then hope that China will be sucessful in persuading North Korea in not seeking a strategic nuclear deterrent.
Phyrak Khun since you talk about Tibet and Tibetan, let’s compare the faith of these aboriginal people in China versus those in America and Australia. Do you know Tibetan have their culture intact and their society move out of servitude and slavery system towards modern society standing tall amongst the people the world over. All the social indexes like life span, literacy, participation in the mainstream society and protection of their language, culture, religion are at par with any one in the world, can you say the same with Hopi Indian in Arizona, or the Australian Aborigine people who wear loin cloth entertaining tourist at their reservation? Open your eyes instead of parroting white racists whose intention is to rule the world according to their selfish way.
The US presence in South Korea means that there will never be a solution to the North Korea problem, simply because it needs this excuse to keep its military presence here in order to contain China and Russia. It in truth wishes this problem never be solved, although it always keeps saying that it wants to maintain peace in the region. What a joke.
I think I saw your profil for quite some time. I guess you could nuke China, why not, if Vietnam has any nuclear weapons. Or better yet, keep sucking your American Daddy’s thing, and your wish will one day come true. Good luck.
Having seen what happened to Iraq, Libya, Syria, and now Venezuela， KimJong Eun would be really stupid to be persuaded to give up is nuclear capabilities. Saddam Hussein, when the hegemon US needed him to fight Iran, was treated as a great friend. When his use was finished, he was treated as one of the evils. Gaddafi was for a while forgiven and the Europeans embraced him. Before he could feel a bit too comfortable, the French and the Brits backstabbed him and fed him to the dogs. The Talibans and Bin Laden were the USs great comrade in arms to help fight against the Russians. When its all over and objectives achieved, they are treated as being the most evil pestilence on the face of this planet. Its ok for Israel to have nuclear bombs. Same for all the European countries(UK, France, ), the US, Pakistan, India, China, Russia. But anyone else is NOT ok. He who dares will be "regime changed". A bit of news recently that at one time, some one in the US political elite proposed doing a "regime change of Putin" in Russia. And just a few days ago, the Pacific Naval Commander was quoted as suggesting "nuking China", which MacCarthur suggested the same at the height of the Korean War! So bearing all these in mind, is it any wonder that Kim Jong Eun would hang on at any cost to his "nuclear babies?" He is probably thinking, if North Korea is to go down, then the US and probably Japan and S.Korea too, will no have it too good.
Come on, it can’t be that serious if South Korean President Moon Jae-in can still find time to go on vacation.
For as long as the US remains in Korea the Korean people would be subjected to this endless tension ans strife.
If the Korean peninsula becomes peaceful there would be no legitimate purpose for US to remain in Korea. Therfore, the US has to create tension and crisis to justify their occupation of Korea.
US blaming China for not doing enough to reign in N Korea is just another ruse, N Korea is an independant country and China can’t force it to do anything. It’s not too hard to do what China had suggested to defuse tension and that is to stop military exercises and not threaten N Korea, but they continue to do so.
Asking China to put out fire on one end and deliberately lit up many more fires on another end is not a sincere desire for peace. China can’t help those who has no real desire to be helped and have exactly the opposite motives.
Maybe, another final war is needed to bring all to a conclusion and a new one Korea emerges.
Nonsense. It is impossible to understand why educated people talking nonsense.