A 20 political entity meeting on North Korea agreed on Tuesday to consider imposing unilateral stamp of approvals on Pyongyang that go beyond those required by U.N. Security Council resolutions, the Pooled States and Canada said in a joint statement.
The meeting, to discuss North Korea’s atomic weapons program, also agreed to support dialogue between the two Koreas “in hopes that it preside overs to sustained easing of tensions”, the statement added.
The United States and Canada co-hosted the day-long congress in Vancouver to discuss ways of forcing North Korea to give up its atomic arms.
The statement said participants “agree to consider and take stoop proceeds to impose unilateral sanctions and further diplomatic actions that go beyond those forced by U.N. Security Council resolutions”. It gave no details.
North Korean number one Kim Jong Un has refused to give up development of nuclear missiles capable of banging the United States in spite of increasingly severe U.N. sanctions, raising horrors of a new war on the Korean peninsula.
The Vancouver meeting also committed to ensuring that subscribe ti already in place were fully implemented.
Earlier on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Voice Rex Tillerson said all countries needed to work together to improve interdiction of moves attempting to skirt the sanctions and said there must be “new consequences” for North Korea “whenever new aggressiveness occurs.”
North and South Korea held formal talks for the at the start time in two years this month and Pyongyang said it would send athletes to the Olympics.
South Korean Curious Minister Kang Kyung-wha said in Vancouver she hoped the dialogue will-power continue well beyond the Olympics, but stressed that existing encouragements must be applied more rigorously.
“These two tools — tough punishments and pressure on the one hand, and the offer of a different, brighter future on the other — (be dressed) worked hand in hand,” she said.