Pompeo, Haley call out China, Russia for helping North Korea violate sanctions

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Pompeo, Haley call out China, Russia for helping North Korea violate sanctions
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The U.S. is calling out China and Russia for helping North Korea violate United Nations sanctions as the regime smuggles in more oil than is allowed.

The illegal transfers are now disrupting the U.S. talks with North Korea and its push for the regime to completely dismantle its nuclear weapons program, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.

But nearly six weeks after President Trump's summit with Kim Jong Un, it's unclear where those talks stand and how successful the U.S. diplomatic push has been or even could be.

Read more at: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pompeo-haley-call-china-russia-helping-north-korea/story?id=56717094

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Nikki Haley: China and Russia 'want to go around the rules' restricting North Korean oil access
by Joel Gehrke  | July 20, 2018 02:31 PM

China and Russia “want to go around the rules” that restrict North Korea’s access to oil to the detriment of negotiations over the regime’s nuclear weapons program, top U.S. diplomats protested Friday.

“The best way we can support those talks is to not loosen the sanctions,” Ambassador Nikki Haley, the U.S. representative at the United Nations, told reporters. “The problem that we are encountering is that some of our friends have decided that they want to go around the rules.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joined Haley in New York to brief the U.N. Security Council about the status of denuclearization talks with North Korea. The meeting focused significantly on North Korea’s access to oil and other energy sources, as Haley’s team filed a report assessing that the regime has violated annual caps on oil imports and demanded an embargo pursuant to recent sanctions resolutions, only to be rebuffed by China and Russia.

Read more at: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/nikki-haley-china-and-russia-want-to-go-around-the-rules-restricting-north-korean-oil-access