U.N. Security Council to vote on new North Korea sanctions Tuesday

Mar 01, 2016, 20:45

The council is expected to convene at 2000 GMT on Tuesday to decide on the resolution that was presented by the U.S. last week, according to Washington's mission to the UN.

The arrival of Chinese Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Affairs Wu Dawei came amid the countdown to a new United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution sanctioning North Korea in response to its recent fourth nuclear test and rocket launch.

The U.N. Security Council could slap North Korea with the broadest array of sanctions the county has ever received.

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Winning China's cooperation is key to ensuring the effectiveness of United Nations sanctions against North Korea because China accounts for almost 90 percent of the North's foreign trade.

The South Korean envoys told Yonhap that China's "increasingly assertive actions" in the contentious Asian waterway undermines the security interests of its neighbors, including South Korea.

The diplomat, who accompanied Foreign Minister Wang Yi during talks in Washington last week, said the two countries had agreed on the need for harsh sanctions against North Korea for defying United Nations resolutions.

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There have been suggestions in the past that Beijing has failed to effectively enforce sanctions against Pyongyang and turned a blind eye to banned items slipping over its border, and analysts say the success of this latest round of sanctions again rests largely with China.

Banking restrictions would be tightened and governments would be required to ban flights of any plane suspected of carrying contraband destined for North Korea. Kirby said no decisions have been made yet on the THAAD deployment and that discussions are under way.

"My government will leave the door for dialogue open, but until North Korea shows they are willing to change and to pursue denuclearisation, we and the global community will continue to pressure North Korea", she said. When asked about the deployment of THAAD during the regular briefing for domestic and foreign correspondents on February 25, South Korean Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Cho Joon-hyuk used the expression "the US-South Korea joint working group for deliberating the issue of possibly deploying THAAD".

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The United States had lobbied bilateral negotiations for almost two months with China to win Beijing's support for tough measure meant to pursue Pyongyang to abandon its atomic weapons programs that at one point it also involved USA president Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

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