North Korea slapped with crippling fresh UN sanctions after China and Russia back US to punish Kim Jong-Un over nuclear threat
THE UN has voted to impose harsh new sanctions on North Korea in response to its harrowing nuclear threat.
With backing from China and Russia, the council voted 15-0 to back the US-drafted ban on textile exports and restricting shipments of fuel to Pyongyang.
It comes just one month after banning exports of coal, lead and seafood in response to North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said: "The international community has shown it is united against the illegal and reckless acts by the North Korean regime.
"It is their continued, illegal and aggressive actions that have brought us to this point, and it is North Korea that must change its course."
The move will drain millions of dollars from the already crippled North Korean economy.
It came just hours after North Korea reissued a statement calling attempts to stifle its highly provocative nuclear ambitions "utterly disgusting" and "despicable";.
The US "will face an unprecedentedly resolute counteraction it can not hold control of" in response to new sanctions, state media channel KCNA said.
Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Monday that the United States is not looking for war with North Korea, and that Pyongyang has "not yet passed the point of no return."
"If it agrees to stop its nuclear program, it can reclaim its future. If it proves it can live in peace, the world will live in peace with it," she told the UN Security Council after the council adopted the new sanctions.
"Today's resolution would not have happened without the strong relationship that has developed between President Trump and Chinese President Xi," Haley said.
Yesterday The Sun reported how Kim Jong-un's despotic regime vowed to "make absolutely sure the US pays due price" for squaring up to the nuclear-armed rogue state.
A statement said that if the United States does not back down from trying to curb its deadly assemblage of an apocalyptic nuclear arsenal, it will "never be able to avoid its permanent extinction".
Last week the head of NATO warned that the world is at its most dangerous point in a generation.
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the BBC: "The reckless behaviour of North Korea is a global threat and requires a global response, and that of course also includes NATO".
On Friday American and Japanese warplanes carried out military drills amid a widely expected upcoming nuclear test from Kim.
North Korea detonated a huge H-bomb in an underground test facility in the north of the country last Sunday — and has vowed to launch an attack on the US Pacific island of Guam.
China’s Earthquake Network Centre said a second 4.6 magnitude earthquake tremor as shockwaves were felt hundreds of miles away.
Japan said the bomb, which is small enough to fit to an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting the US mainland, was ten times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb.
President Trump has warned that all options are on the table to wipe out the Kim threat — including a Bin Laden-style commando assassination.
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