{"id":385684,"date":"2017-12-23T10:03:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T10:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=385684"},"modified":"2017-12-23T18:20:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T18:20:45","slug":"trump-praises-latest-north-korea-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/trump-praises-latest-north-korea-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump praises latest North Korea sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"
US President Donald Trump has praised the UN Security Council for imposing tough new sanctions on North Korea in response to ballistic missile tests.<\/p>\n
In a tweet,\u00a0Mr Trump said the vote proved the world “wants peace, not death”.<\/p>\n
The US-drafted resolution includes measures to slash North Korea’s petrol imports by up to 90%.<\/p>\n
China and Russia, Pyongyang’s main trading partners, voted in favour of the resolution.<\/p>\n
North Korea is already subject to a raft of sanctions from the US, the UN and the EU.<\/p>\n
“The United Nations Security Council just voted 15-0 in favor of additional Sanctions on North Korea. The World wants Peace, not Death!” Mr Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n
The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said the sanctions sent an “unambiguous message to Pyongyang that further defiance will invite further punishments and isolation”.<\/p>\n
She described North Korea as “the most tragic example of evil in the modern world”.<\/p>\n
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the latest measures against North Korea were a “vital step” towards curbing its nuclear weapons programme.<\/p>\n
He said the international community had shown it was united in its condemnation of the North’s “reckless behaviour”.<\/p>\n