After veto on North Korea, China says 'let's see' on UN action over a nuclear test - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The double veto publicly split the 15-member Security Council for the first time since it started punishing Pyongyang in 2006.The double veto publicly split the 15-member Security Council for the first time since it started punishing Pyongyang in 2006.

“Let’s see what will happen, but I think we should not prejudge what will happen with a nuclear test,” Zhang told Reuters, two weeks after China and Russia vetoed imposing more UN Security Council sanctions on North Korea. The body has steadily – and unanimously – ratcheted up sanctions over the years in a bid to cut off funding for North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes.

North Korea has carried out dozens of missile launches this year, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, breaking a test moratorium it self-imposed after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met then-US President Donald Trump in 2018 for the first of three meetings.Zhang has urged Washington to ease unilateral sanctions on North Korea and end joint military exercises with South Korea in a bid to revive talks with Pyongyang.

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