The statement from the North Korean National Defense Commission was a response to the United Nations Security Council's approval this week of a resolution condemning the North's most successful rocket launching to date and tightening sanctions — a resolution that China, the North's biggest ally, voted to approve.
This month, the same body sanctioned a resolution allowing such observers to fly their flag at the UN.
In large part thanks to his hard work, the council sent peacekeepers into Lebanon, passed sanctions on North Korea, threatened sanctions in a resolution condemning Iran's nuclear programme, and told Sudan it must accept UN troops.
The intervention in Libya that brought down Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi was sanctioned by such a resolution, but Russia, which abstained at the time, said that it felt the resolution was deliberately misused by the West, and it has promised to veto any similar resolution concerning Syria.
He asks what conversations have been had with US President Donald Trump on sanctions, stipulating that a resolution "cannot be at the expense of the North Korean people who have suffered so much".
She said she expected a sanction resolution to come to a vote within the next several months.
Resolution 1820, adopted last year after a tussle, affirms that sexual violence as a weapon of war affects international peace and security, and could trigger sanctions; an earlier resolution (1612) aimed to protect children in war zones.
There may be other dissenters, and since a key U.S. goal is to be perceived as successfully isolating Iran politically, it would undermine U.S. goals to win approval of a sanctions resolution on a vote of 9-6.
We call on the European Union to urgently adopt a resolution sanctioning these practices, which are part of the Chinese government's repressive system".
Britain and France have proposed a Security Council resolution that would criticize Syria but not include military action or sanctions, like those in a resolution on Libya.
A senior administration official said that one of the most critical sections of the proposed sanctions was modeled on a resolution passed last year against North Korea, after its second nuclear test.
