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Trump says US will impose new North Korea sanctions
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US President Donald Trump said yesterday that he will announce new sanctions against North Korea as South Korea warned the United Nations of the risk of accidentally igniting a war.
Trump had threatened to “totally destroy North Korea” in his first address to the General Assembly. “We will put more sanctions on North Korea,” he said during a meeting on the sidelines of the assembly.
The threat from North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests has dominated this year’s gathering of world leaders, but divisions remain over how to confront Pyongyang.
After Trump’s speech, South Korean leader Moon Jae-in struck a different tone, saying the crisis “needs to be managed stably so that tensions will not become overly intensified or accidental military clashes will not destroy peace.”
Moon said South Korea was not seeking the collapse of its neighbor and was ready to help if Pyongyang decides “to stand on the right side of history” and halts its provocations.
North Korea in recent weeks detonated its sixth nuclear bomb and has test-fired intercontinental missiles — saying it needs to defend itself against the United States and its allies.
Moon nonetheless voiced support for sanctions, calling for all nations to implement the latest UN Security Council resolution that bans North Korea’s textile exports and end contracts for guest workers.
The council last week adopted the latest sanctions, a significant ratcheting-up of punitive measures aimed at cutting off revenue used by Pyongyang on its military programs.
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have called for diplomatic talks and warned that military action would be catastrophic.
Wang said the situation on the Korean Peninsula was getting more serious by the day and could not be allowed to spin out of control.
“We call on all parties to be calmer than calm and not let the situation escalate out of control,” Wang said.
Meeting separately with his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha, Wang reiterated a call for South Korea to remove the US-built THAAD anti-missile system, which China says is a threat to its own security.
“China hopes South Korea will make efforts to reduce tension,” Xinhua news agency quoted Wang as saying.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in “clear disagreement” with Trump, saying in a radio interview that “any kind of military solution is completely deficient.”
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho dismissed Trump’s threats as “a dog’s bark” and said they would have zero impact.
Asked what he thought of Trump calling leader Kim Jong Un “rocket man,” Ri quipped: “I feel sorry for his aides.”
Meanwhile, South Korea has approved a plan to send US$8 million worth of aid to North Korea.
It said that US$4.5 million worth of nutritional products for children and pregnant women would be sent through the World Food Program and US$3.5 million worth of vaccines and medicinal treatments through UNICEF.
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