China must keep up North Korea sanctions, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells counterpart Wang Yi
Pompeo spoke to Wang about the countries’ shared efforts to denuclearise North Korea on Thursday, the US State Department said on Friday
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has stressed to China the importance of continued enforcement of sanctions on North Korea to press it to give up its nuclear weapons, after warning of signs of backsliding by Beijing.
The State Department said Pompeo had spoken to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Thursday and discussed efforts “to achieve our shared goal of the complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.”
Pompeo reiterated that North Korea would have a bright future if it denuclearised and emphasised “the continued importance of full enforcement of all relevant UN Security Council resolutions related to North Korea,” the department said in a statement.
It said this was especially important when it came to preventing North Korea’s illegal export of coal and imports of refined petroleum through ship-to-ship transfers prohibited by the United Nations.
