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US President Donald Trump has commended China and Russia for their support on a US-drafted resolution ramping up sanctions on North Korea, saying he “appreciates” their votes.
“The President appreciates China’s and Russia’s cooperation in securing passage of this resolution,” read a White House statement released after the UN Security Council’s unanimous passage of the sweeping measures.
“He will continue working with allies and partners to increase diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea to end its threatening and destabilising behaviour.”
Watch: UN imposes tough new sanctions on North Korea


Trump has been frustrated that China has not done more to rein in North Korea and Washington has threatened to impose new sanctions on Chinese firms doing business with Pyongyang.

I am very disappointed in China. Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2017

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...they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk. We will no longer allow this to continue. China could easily solve this problem!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2017

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China has also been upset by possible moves by the Trump administration to exert trade pressure on Beijing.
Trump had earlier tweeted his support for the tough new sanctions.
“The United Nations Security Council just voted 15-0 to sanction North Korea. China and Russia voted with us. Very big financial impact!” he said on Twitter.

The United Nations Security Council just voted 15-0 to sanction North Korea. China and Russia voted with us. Very big financial impact!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2017

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The sanctions against North Korea for its escalating nuclear and missile programmes include a ban on coal and other exports worth over $1 billion - a huge bite in its total exports, valued at US$3 billion last year.
The US-drafted resolution, negotiated with North Korea’s neighbour and ally China, is aimed at increasing economic pressure on Pyongyang to return to negotiations on its nuclear and missile programmes - a point stressed by all 15 council members in speeches after the vote.
The Security Council has already imposed six rounds of sanctions that have failed to halt North Korea’s drive to improve its ballistic missile and nuclear weapons capabilities.

The resolution’s adoption follows North Korea’s first successful tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States on July 3 and July 27.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Asean foreign ministers meeting in Manila on Sunday, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi said China played a “responsible and constructive” role in the UN’s decision to pass Resolution 2371.

The comments came as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was also the Philippines for the regional summit expected to focus heavily on concerns with North Korea. Tillerson has no plans to sit down with North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho at the event.
Tillerson’s reluctance to sit down with his North Korean counterpart is despite his growing push for Pyongyang to return to the negotiating table with the US.
Tillerson said last week that such talks would have to be predicated on the North giving up its nuclear weapons aspirations and that the conditions for such talks haven’t yet been met by North Korea’s government.
Agence France-Press, Associated Press, Reuters

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Trump ‘appreciates’ China, Russia backing on tough North Korea sanctions that have ‘big financial impact’

US President Donald Trump. Photo: AFP

FILE - This file photo distributed by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea's northwest, Tuesday, July 4, 2017. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo. North Korea’s flurry of missile launches - 20 of them just in the past year - are a new and alarming fact of life for Japan and its other neighbors. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

(170806) -- UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 6, 2017 (Xinhua) -- Nikki Haley (R, front), U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, shakes hands with Liu Jieyi, China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, prior to a Security Council on DPRK, at the UN headquarters in New York, Aug. 5, 2017. The United Nations Security Council on Saturday unanimously adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution that aims to slash by a third the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's 3 billion U.S. dollars annual export revenue over Pyongyang's two intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests in July.  (Xinhua/Li Muzi)(gl)

China’s foreign minister urges North Korea to remain calm following UN sanctions

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho, left, smiles as he greets his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi prior to their meeting in Manila on Sunday. Photo: AP

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, second from left, prepares for a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, second from right, in the sidelines of the 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting and its Dialogue Partners Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017 in suburban Pasay city, south Manila, Philippines. Bolstered by new U.N. sanctions, the United States and North Korea's neighbors are joining in a fresh attempt to isolate Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs, in a global campaign cheered on by U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, center, bids farewell to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, right, following their bilateral meeting in the sidelines of the 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting and its Dialogue Partners Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017 in suburban Pasay city, south Manila, Philippines. Bolstered by new U.N. sanctions, the United States and North Korea's neighbors are joining in a fresh attempt to isolate Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs, in a global campaign cheered on by U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Trump vows he won’t let China ‘do nothing’ on North Korea after latest missile test

US President Donald Trump is tweeting about his disappointments, particularly with China and its lack of action on North Korea

This July 28, 2017 picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 29, 2017 shows North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Hwasong-14 being lauched at an undisclosed place in North Korea. Kim Jong-Un boasted of North Korea's ability to strike any target in the US after a second ICBM test that weapons experts said could even bring New York into range -– in a potent challenge to US President Donald Trump. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIS KNS / STR / - South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. /

Two U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers fly a 10-hour mission from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, escorted by a Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-2 fighter jet into Japanese airspace and then over the Korean Peninsula, July 30, 2017. U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

US President Donald Trump is tweeting about his disappointments, particularly with China and its lack of action on North Korea. Photo: AFP

UN Security Council votes unanimously to impose new sanctions on North Korea

Members of the United Nations Security Council vote on a resolution to implement new sanctions against North Korea as way to pressure Kim Jong Un's regime to return to international nuclear and missile negotiations at United Nations headquarters in New York. Photo: EPA

Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Liu Jieyu votes during a Security Council meeting on a new sanctions resolution that would increase economic pressure on North Korea to return to negotiations on its missile program, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

British Ambassador to the United Nations Matthew Rycroft, left, and American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley vote during a Security Council meeting on a new sanctions resolution that would increase economic pressure on North Korea to return to negotiations on its missile program, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Trump ‘appreciates’ China, Russia backing on tough North Korea sanctions that have ‘big financial impact’

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Trump has been frustrated that China has not done more to rein in North Korea