Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday that pressure, not dialogue was the best option to denuclearize North Korea.

Abe dedicated the majority of his UN address to the threat from the DPRK, calling it “unprecedented” and saying the nuclear non-proliferation regime was about to be dealt a “serious blow.”

“It was absolutely not a lack of dialogue that gave rise to this situation… What is needed to (make North Korea give up its nuclear program), is not dialogue, but pressure,” Abe told the UN General Assembly.

The Japanese leader spent a