Posted on 07/21/2018 3:57:50 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The U.S. is calling out China and Russia for helping North Korea violate United Nations sanctions as the regime smuggles in more oil than is allowed.
The illegal transfers are now disrupting the U.S. talks with North Korea and its push for the regime to completely dismantle its nuclear weapons program, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
Pompeo traveled to New York Friday to join Haley for a meeting with the U.N. Security Council representatives, including Chinese and Russian representatives, for what Haley called "frank talk."
"We put pressure today on China and Russia to abide and be good helpers through this situation and to help us continue with denuclearization," she said after the meetings.
Pompeo and Haley also met with the South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, both of whom have supported the Trump administration's negotiations with North Korea.
While Pompeo declared that the U.N. Security Council was "united on the need for final, fully verified denuclearization of North Korea, as agreed to by Chairman Kim," he said, "Strict enforcement of sanctions is critical to achieving this goal."
But in what seemed like a warning if talks fell apart, he added, "When sanctions are not enforced, the prospects for the successful denuclearization of North Korea are diminished."
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Pompeo & Haley are both great additions in the Trump Admin.
Can’t say the same about Beauregard Sessions.
Our good friends the Russians and Chinese...
Haily is a never trumper.
*Haley
NK would be foolish to give up its ability to defend itself until some things are done to improve the lives of its people. Sanctions that punish people who have nothing seem so wrong. Trusting the US if they give up the weapons to not do a regime change thing would mean that the NK dictator doesn’t know history.
Meanwhile, Trump called off our military exercises in South Korea, damaging military readiness and trust. Trump agreed with Kim that those exercises are provocative, another instance of him putting the interests of a tyrant ahead of the USA. Kim Jong Un now is demanding money too. North Korea was just exposed as the leading slave state in the world. Trump, however, praised Kim as a strong leader, again making America look foolish, confused, intellectually daft. Real pro-American conservatives need to wake up. Praising tyrants may work on the Left, but it’s un-American.
We’re woke, asshole. Your ilk would have Hillary as Prez. GFU
elhombrelibre is a troll. The troll is posting some DU-style, anti-Trump screeds on other threads.
He should be riding the lightening.
Trolls thrive on attention, if you ignore them, they get mal-nourished and wither on the vine. But thanks anyways for the heads up.
I wish you the best. If you think real leadership is ignorance of facts and regional issues, tweeting gibberish, including attacks on his own staff to publicly humiliate them, then I’d say your approach to leadership and conservative values are just Trumpian.
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