The US has proposed to introduce an oil embargo against North Korea and to freeze the assets of North Korean leader Kim Jong-UN. On Wednesday, September 6, RIA Novosti reported, citing AFP.
As noted, the proposal contained in the draft UN resolution on North Korea proposed by the United States. Also the US is going to prevent the export of textiles from North Korea and prohibit to hire North Korean workers abroad.
The resolution could be adopted next Monday, September 11, the Agency said.
Earlier Wednesday, the President of the United States Donald trump did not rule out military action against North Korea. He stated that this development “is not a first choice”. Speaking of held a telephone conversation with President XI Jinping of China, trump noted that his Chinese counterpart “would like to do something to resolve the crisis on the Korean Peninsula. “Let’s see how events will develop. We will not put up with what is happening in North Korea,” — said the head of the White house.
On 4 September it became known that South Korean intelligence had recorded in Korea, signs of preparation for the next launch of an Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in the Pacific ocean.
A day earlier, the DPRK announced the successful test of a hydrogen warhead, which is designed to equip Intercontinental ballistic missiles. The Ministry of defense of Japan preliminarily estimated the capacity of the tested charge 70 kilotons, several times the power of the atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.