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US to ‘move forward’ with new UN sanctions on North Korea this month: US envoy

Resolution expected to further constrain DPRK fuel trade but will likely run up against Chinese and Russia vetoes

The U.S. will push forward a U.N. Security Council (UNSC) resolution expected to introduce additional sanctions against North Korea this month, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. said Tuesday. 

“We have a resolution that is being discussed in the [UNSC] on the DPRK, and it is our plan to move forward with that resolution during this month,” Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said during a press conference in New York.

“We’re very concerned about the situation there,” she added, pointing to what she called the DPRK’s “numerous violations of Security Council Resolutions.”

The upcoming resolution was first announced in March after North