UK Urges China to Be Tougher on NKorea amid Nuke Threat
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The UK Prime Minister Theresa May called China a key player in the situation on the Korean Peninsula recently aggravated because of North Korea's missile launches and urged the country to put more pressure on Pyongyang to stop nuclear threats.
May pointed out that the United Kingdom is working with the partners on the issue, but reiterated that China is "a key player in this."
"China has, I think, a very key role to play in terms of the pressure it can bring... I have said this to President Xi [Jinping], others have as well. We think that China has a role to play and we'd encourage China to do everything it can to bring pressure on North Korea to stop this," May told reporters on the way to Japan, as quoted by The Guardian.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have already agreed to work toward getting the United Nations Security Council [UNSC] to impose stricter restrictive measures against Pyongyang.
On Tuesday, North Korea launched an intermediate-range Hwasong-12 ballistic missile, which flew over Japan before falling into the Pacific Ocean 733 miles east of Japan's northern island Hokkaido.
On the same day, the UNSC held a closed session on North Korea, followed by an open meeting.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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