UNITED NATIONS: The United States will present to the UN Security Council a draft resolution imposing new sanctions on North Korea after it launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile, US Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday. Haley said she had spoken to President Donald Trump earlier in the day about using trade restrictions to target countries that continue to have dealings with North Korea. “The United States is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies,” she said. Those resolutions provided for significant curbs on North Korea’s coal exports, a major source of revenue, restrictions on banking and mandatory searches of all cargo to and from North Korea. In all, six sets of sanctions have been imposed on North Korea since it first tested an atomic device in 2006.

Source: Manila Times July 05, 2017 19:41 UTC