The United States has given China a draft resolution for tougher UN sanctions on North Korea and is hoping for a quick vote on it by the UN Security Council, a Western diplomat said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
A senior official of the Trump administration confirmed efforts were under way to negotiate a new UN resolution, but added that there had been no agreement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying to get another one,\u201d said the official, who did not want to be identified. \u201cThey\u2019re not there yet.\u201d Details of the draft given to China last week were not immediately available, but the United States is keen to step up global sanctions to pressure North Korea to give up a weapons program aimed at developing a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the United States.<\/p>\n
Among the steps it wants is a tightening of restrictions on North Korea\u2019s supply of refined petroleum, which is capped by previous UN sanctions at 2 million barrels a year.<\/p>\n
China, which supplies most of North Korea\u2019s oil, has backed successive rounds of UN sanctions but has resisted past US calls to cut off supplies to its neighbor. Its embassy in Washington and Foreign Ministry in Beijing did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Any move to curb exports of Chinese fuel to North Korea may have limited impact after China National Petroleum Corp suspended diesel and gasoline sales to its northern neighbor in June over concerns the state-owned company would not get paid.<\/p>\n
Business has slowed steadily since then, with zero shipments of diesel, gasoline and other fuel in October. November data will be released on Monday.<\/p>\n
The United States has also called on the UN Security Council to blacklist 10 ships for circumventing sanctions on North Korea, documents seen by Reuters on Tuesday showed.<\/p>\n
The documents said vessels had been conducting ship-to-ship transfers of refined petroleum products to North Korean vessels or transporting North Korean coal in violation of existing UN sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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